19th April

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Anybody who’s going travelling, please bear in mind - it’s quite a lot of work to produce a blog entry every day, and some won’t be that interesting. Today I went to work, had a walk and came home to have tea, wasn’t really hungry so I went to the library. Apologies to those who wanted high drama and tales of bravery and woe - I’m tired, so early bedtime.

To digress slightly… Tales of bravery and woe were told by knights in days of yore. Nights invariably follow days, and days are what it would take to walk from England to Hong Kong. King Kong has been the animated star of many movies, a privilege shared by Wallace and Gromit. Both of the latter (but probably not the former) like enjoy a ‘nice cup of tea’, a pleasure also enjoyed by many Chinese each day. Tea used to be carried to the UK in clippers from ports around China, most famously in the Cutty Sark. People like to stand on the docks and look out to sea, or sometimes to sit there, so todays song can only be “Sitting on the dock of the bay” by Otis Redding because .. well, I paused there on my walk round, because it fits, and because I need a song from five lines of text. Seamless.

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Photos

Chai Wan park
A beautiful open space in one of the 'housing estates', a group of tower blocks far from Central.

HK Central Library
The globe is a kugel, a sphere of granite rotating on a pumped water film. I want to know how they make it rotate on the right axis...
As it turns it's remarkably like the BBC intro screens used to be!