After the trip to Vienna, Cuff returned for an overnight stop in Bristol & then back off to London & a long flight (via Paris) to Hong Kong.
The trip was travel intensive & tiring but around Midnight this Sunday the weary traveller returned.
After 24 hours travelling, including the missed connection in Paris, Cuffy unceremoniously dumped Guitar & Flight bag on the sitting room floor, grabbed a beer & flopped on the sofa .. HOME!
I gave him a few minutes reprieve before I launched in with my questions.
What’s Hong Kong like?
He replied – DIFFERENT, BUSY, SMOGGY & HOT (The latter making our present Siberian weather even harder to bear on his return) oh, and TALL BUILDINGS, apparently his hotel was on top of a shopping mall that was on top a train Station !
Did he eat Okay?
Cuffy is, for the most part, a vegetarian (although an occasional aquatic morsel does pass this lips) and as most Vegetarians will tell you, finding something to eat in a foreign land can always be a bit hit & miss, a good phrase book can give you lists of foods but can’t possibly give you all the ingredients of any given dish.
(I have often, while abroad, had an unidentified ‘something’ in my mouth & found the best way to deal with it was to swallow quickly & think of England)
Luckily the hangover of British Rule is evident in Hong Kong .They still drive on the ‘proper’ side (so you know which way to look when crossing the road) & most signs & (Hooray!) menus are in both English & Chinese ... so happy eating for Cuffy!
How was the gig?
The man of few words said it was ‘good’ & when further pressed, said that he really enjoying playing the new music from Yasmin’s latest album.
So there you go you have it – HONG KONG – done & dusted.
JOJO
The trip was travel intensive & tiring but around Midnight this Sunday the weary traveller returned.
After 24 hours travelling, including the missed connection in Paris, Cuffy unceremoniously dumped Guitar & Flight bag on the sitting room floor, grabbed a beer & flopped on the sofa .. HOME!
I gave him a few minutes reprieve before I launched in with my questions.
What’s Hong Kong like?
He replied – DIFFERENT, BUSY, SMOGGY & HOT (The latter making our present Siberian weather even harder to bear on his return) oh, and TALL BUILDINGS, apparently his hotel was on top of a shopping mall that was on top a train Station !
Did he eat Okay?
Cuffy is, for the most part, a vegetarian (although an occasional aquatic morsel does pass this lips) and as most Vegetarians will tell you, finding something to eat in a foreign land can always be a bit hit & miss, a good phrase book can give you lists of foods but can’t possibly give you all the ingredients of any given dish.
(I have often, while abroad, had an unidentified ‘something’ in my mouth & found the best way to deal with it was to swallow quickly & think of England)
Luckily the hangover of British Rule is evident in Hong Kong .They still drive on the ‘proper’ side (so you know which way to look when crossing the road) & most signs & (Hooray!) menus are in both English & Chinese ... so happy eating for Cuffy!
How was the gig?
The man of few words said it was ‘good’ & when further pressed, said that he really enjoying playing the new music from Yasmin’s latest album.
So there you go you have it – HONG KONG – done & dusted.
JOJO