The last stop. The final frontier. Enter three familiar faces - Mother Henderson, Sister Henderson and the legendary Rick Johnson. A luxury hotel at last... a gym, restaurants, a swimming pool on the roof, hotel staff calling me 'sir'. This is proper backpacking! For the last five days of my trip, the Henderson women had arranged to come out. Mother H was born in Hong Kong so it was a homecoming of sorts, 50 years on. We searched for her old house up on the peak but they had built some new apartments up there. Never mind, the view from the peak once the clouds had parted was spectacular. It is the cityscape views that Hong Kong does like nowhere else in the world. I haven't seen the Manhattan skyline but surely the nighttime view
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