Saturday may 5th, Liberation Day in Holland and my last day here in Hongkong. Off to town with Francesca, who has the weekend off work. We went to the Star Ferry and crossed the water to Hongkong Island to get to the post office, I am sending the Chinese poster home by mail. That went fast and simple and we headed back to the Kowloon side to go to the Peninsula Hotel to meet a Dutch friend of Francesca's, Patricia. We had tea in this fantastic colonial lobby of t...

Hongkong, quite a different world. I arrived to Hongkong, the flight was early, at 9:30 am. Getting my backpack and through customs went fine. I bought an Octopus card, this is a card to use at all public transportation but you can also pay small purchases with it, like lunch. I hoppped on the bus to town, wifi on the bus, good start! The drive was scenic and first skylines of the city appeared. Francesca, my host here, was waiting at the busstop of the resident...

The long way home, KLM Taipei-Hong Kong-Amsterdam.