Hong Kong - the Workington of the East: Photos 21 to 30

It was a brave man who once said "Aaaaz fray Wukintun". Thankfully, after more than eight years, he remembered me, and was equally brave to invite us to stay with him in Hong Kong.

At first, "Whamsey", or in his new cosmopolitan Hong Kong playboy incarnation, "Holmsey", apologised for his flat, saying we would have to sleep on the futon in the small living room, space being at a premium in HK. To make matters worse, he is an IT night owl whilst his flatmate is an early rising fitness guru. What ensued was a high octane ninety-six hours which left us both bruised, battered and desperate for sleep, with our host apologising "We're not normally like this in HK."

Our train from Guilin to Shenzhen on the HK border was perhaps the best in China yet. The earth will be swallowed by a small supernova before Britain has trains this good (sorry Martin) - it seemed to hover over rather than trundle along the tracks. We were also hosted by a charming military couple, he returning from his first meeting with her parents. They had brought along a bag full of home-cooked sticky-rice balls, wrapped in banana-leaf and

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You have taken some remarkable night shots! How did you do these? F-stop? Exposure time? DSLR? or point and shoot?? Email me at jm@johnmoretti.com and let me know. You did a fantastic job and I want to get the same results! John - www.johnmoretti.com and www.operationplayground.org

We love seeing your beautiful photos in each blog! We lived in HK for over 3 years and never saw it through your eyes! You have a gift.

hey there, i typed hong kong into google and came across your page. i gotta say, living in hong kong for most of my life, i have never seen such amazing pictures as the ones you got here! i'm impressed. hope you don't mind but i pinched some of your awesome photos, and posted them on my xanga weblog! i have given you credit for them though. keep up the great work, and hope you enjoyed the wonder that is my hometown, hong kong forever :) if your interested, the url is www.xanga.com/lauren_baby x

You have taken some remarkable night shots! How did you do these? F-stop? Exposure time? DSLR? or point and shoot?? Email me at jm@johnmoretti.com and let me know. You did a fantastic job and I want to get the same results! John - www.johnmoretti.com and www.operationplayground.org

We love seeing your beautiful photos in each blog! We lived in HK for over 3 years and never saw it through your eyes! You have a gift.

hey there, i typed hong kong into google and came across your page. i gotta say, living in hong kong for most of my life, i have never seen such amazing pictures as the ones you got here! i'm impressed. hope you don't mind but i pinched some of your awesome photos, and posted them on my xanga weblog! i have given you credit for them though. keep up the great work, and hope you enjoyed the wonder that is my hometown, hong kong forever :) if your interested, the url is www.xanga.com/lauren_baby x