Times must be tough here in Hong Kong becuase every tailor in town was offering me a very special price and to quality. It was amusing to a point.....but after being hounded every 50 feet by yet another guy trying to tell me I needed a suit(was I dressed that badly?)the fun was over and I morphed into the rather ugly American and didn't even answer them any more....I actually told one guy I didn't speak English....he quit bugging me but had this rather odd look on his face as I walked away....
Of course if it wasn't the guys from the tailor shops it was the guys trying to be all sly and offer me a great deal on an awesome fake Rolex....what's funny is how not subtle they are no matter how hard they try. You can see them coming at you....they look all shifty...trying so hard to be cool.....
That wasn't all I did or saw here in Hong Kong....played tourist and did a fun city tour, and of course rode the world famous Star Ferry from Kowloon to Hong Kong and back.
Alot has changed here since my first visit 25 years ago. Seemed a lot more exotic back then. Maybe because I had traveled so little at that point in my life...I don't know....but this time out it was just not all that....I think the fact that it was cold and overcast took away some of the magic, or perhaps I'm just jaded...hmmmm....or could just be that I am bummed that the Hard Rock Cafe has closed....not enough tourists coming here to keep it open.....
I'm off to Seoul in a few hours...hope that HRC is still open.
Ha! That's hiliarious! What accent did you fake when you told the guy that you didn't speak English? That is too funny! Those guys with the fake Rolexes sure didn't have a chance, huh? I bet all you had to do was give them your icy stare and they probably shrank away!
ReplyDeleteOh, and by the by, did you get to ride the world's longest escalator?
The meeting on Sabbath was as usual, and we got a bunch of stuff to take to Africa, so I will be lugging two giant suitcases full of odds and ends to take with me. Funny how much people like that veggie meat! The extremes to which they will go to have it are just amazing! Rather than go two weeks without it, they are dividing up cases so that everyone carries two or three cans! I don't really think it's that worth it, but as long as everyone is happy, whatever.
But I would so like to know how Seoul is. You must be lonely. I'll bet you don't know a Seoul there!
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