“I wondered how similar Hong Kong was to the China I have known and loved. Would you be able to smoke everywhere? Is English as widespread as my research has told me? Am I going to have to pay £5 for a bottle of water? What would the weather and pollution be like?” First impressions are very odd indeed. The train station was huge, empty, clean and modern. All the signs were in English first, then Cantonese. In the taxi, the driver spoke English, was driving and sitting on the left hand side, and it contained seat belts! The streets were full of people, western people at that, and at 12:30 at night, everything was lit as if it were day. There were non-smoking signs everywhere, which were actually being obeyed, and in the few
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