Space.

I don't got that.


The only space one can generally find in Hong Kong is vertical. The wide open air is just about your only respite if you're looking for a bit of elbow room. Unfortunately, going for a walk out in the balcony farm that is most people's backyard can often be a bit...well, fatal. Love to go for a stroll out my back door, but I'm not hugely keen on the idea of plumetting to my death in order to get a few seconds of 'me' time.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah *splort*

So, until I get the opportunity to head out to the countryside for a bit, I'll just have to contend with the high-speed zombie apocalypse that is street level Hong Kong. Remembering back to my days in Beijing, & given that I'm such a gifted whiner, I'm taking the bustle with really good humour as comparatively the denizens of HK are a polite, slow-paced lot when held up against the insane human tsumanis that bash through the doors of the bus at every stop on the 3rd ring road. Wow, I'm turning into an old man. Grumble grumble grumble. What's the bet when I next visit my parents in Darwin I go into some kind of reverse culture shock & have to spend half a day rocking back & forth in a restaurant kitchen or the emergency room of the hospital just so I don't go into a slow pace-induced coma?


The crowding makes sense though considering how tiny this city feels. I'm finding that both direction & my sense of scale are completely useless here so far. The city really looks like a megatropolis (I mean just look at the sexy background pic to this blog), but I can almost walk it end to end in around an hour. I think...more to follow on that later...Hong Kong I think is just vastly different from what I had expected. What did I expect? No idea really. Maybe like Mexico City, but hanging all zably out over the water? Japan with looser manners & better dumplings? I'm not a big thinker, let's be honest.


Anyway, it's Sunday & I'm trying to save a bit of money until work starts paying me next month, so I'm going to stay indoors playing video games, like a real adventurer. Enjoy the photos.

To the left. Off to Causeway Bay.

To the right. Off to Midlevels & Central.

Straight ahead. THE VISTA!

Yar! Walk the plank!

 Granted, this looks like the kitchen of a slob, but I made toast here. Toast!!! 

Kitchen: Destroyed.