Saturday

Early flight back to Hong Kong. We took the train into town which was surprisingly fast and efficient. Nothing in DC or anywhere in the US compares. Our hotel in the Khaloom section of the city overlooks the harbor. Very impressive.


This is a very vertical city. Hundreds of skyscrapers, which are very thin. Many of the buildings are only one room wide. It’s like many toothpicks standing in the air.

We took the Metro to the Jade market, and spent the afternoon haggling with vendors for jade beads for Ellen. We walked back to the hotel to take in the sites, but realized it was long. Ann’s other hip is giving out, and it is not always happy with long walks, despite her desire to do the walking.

We met up with an old friend Kathy Chiron and her husband who have lived here for 10 years now. We took the Star Ferry across the harbor and got a cab to their apartment. Dinner at the historic Correspondents Club where reporters over the ages have gathered to share news and drinks. Very colonial looking with dark wood and carpeting. Old fading newspaper headlines on the wall - :”VJ Day”, “Nixon Resigns”, “MacArthur Relieved of Command”, etc.

Exhausted, we took the ferry back across the harbor and watched the lights of the city across the water.