Hello Great Ones,
Sorry no pictures this week. I should have taken a few, but I did not. I have no valid excuse for why not. Maybe I was not in tourist mode so I just forgot. Still I had few interesting experiences this week. On Tuesday night I went to a Mexican restaurant in Kowloon, they got everything here baby, and spent some time with five other men that I got to know through a mutual friend. It was interesting in that four of us were all born in 1961. The other two were born in 1949 and 1964. This was great since most people I know at the school were born in the 70's or yikes even the 80's. So what do old 50 year old guys do? Well, we had some good laughs talking about the 60's and 70's. Was good. Nice to hang with some guys my own age for a change.
On Thursday I had an unexpected day off. Typhoon Neset, I think that is right, was 300 km off the coast of Hong Kong and the typhoon warning system hit number 8. Kind of gives you an idea how big and dangerous typhoons are when one 300 km away is considered close and life threatening. Once you get up to warning 8 schools are shut down, and buses and subways stop as well. So it was a good chance for me to catch up on some sleep. The winds were pretty bad and there were a lot of branches and debris laying around later. The winds made the rain go sideways and it lashed my apartment pretty good. By the evening everything was calm again.
On Friday I went to a neighboring town called Sai kung with a friend and ate at a restaurant called Sauce. It was awesome. All you can eat Tapas, Spanish food served small. Very good. I think Hong Kong should promote its food. They have everything here. Some is crazy expensive, but for the most part you can have a great meal, like I had for less than 20 dollars Canadian. Great.
So that is it for this week. I will try to get some visuals for next week. Have a good one eh?
Love adios and peng on,
Dirk
Sorry no pictures this week. I should have taken a few, but I did not. I have no valid excuse for why not. Maybe I was not in tourist mode so I just forgot. Still I had few interesting experiences this week. On Tuesday night I went to a Mexican restaurant in Kowloon, they got everything here baby, and spent some time with five other men that I got to know through a mutual friend. It was interesting in that four of us were all born in 1961. The other two were born in 1949 and 1964. This was great since most people I know at the school were born in the 70's or yikes even the 80's. So what do old 50 year old guys do? Well, we had some good laughs talking about the 60's and 70's. Was good. Nice to hang with some guys my own age for a change.
On Thursday I had an unexpected day off. Typhoon Neset, I think that is right, was 300 km off the coast of Hong Kong and the typhoon warning system hit number 8. Kind of gives you an idea how big and dangerous typhoons are when one 300 km away is considered close and life threatening. Once you get up to warning 8 schools are shut down, and buses and subways stop as well. So it was a good chance for me to catch up on some sleep. The winds were pretty bad and there were a lot of branches and debris laying around later. The winds made the rain go sideways and it lashed my apartment pretty good. By the evening everything was calm again.
On Friday I went to a neighboring town called Sai kung with a friend and ate at a restaurant called Sauce. It was awesome. All you can eat Tapas, Spanish food served small. Very good. I think Hong Kong should promote its food. They have everything here. Some is crazy expensive, but for the most part you can have a great meal, like I had for less than 20 dollars Canadian. Great.
So that is it for this week. I will try to get some visuals for next week. Have a good one eh?
Love adios and peng on,
Dirk
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