Stuff wot I has lernt so far

Hong Kong

Getting drunk on a long haul flight is not good for jet lag
Hong Kong smells funny
Hong Kong is the city that London wants to be – but isn’t
People eat funny things in Hong Kong
The Chinese are very helpful and polite people
The Chinese people need to be told what to do otherwise they panic
Having natural light is considered an upgrade in Hong Kong
There is no Chinese culture – they have sold it (brown sign England beware!)
The Chinese do not drink – wierdos – but like to shop instead. Where else could you buy a mobile phone with contract at 2.00 in the morning?
The youth are achingly hip and wear t-shirts with absolute nonsense written on them. My favourite so far being Finger/Scorpion/Kick!
Hong Kong is very clean
The Chinese are al less than 5 foot 6 tall

Melbourne

It is cold and wet
They sell good pies in Pie Face
The AAMI stadium is good
It is like England when England is in a good mood!
It looks like Cumbria

Sydney

The opera house is made of concrete and is not as white as the photographs would lead you to believe
They have bats flying round of an evening – ace
They use ferries to get round
They have a suburb called Manly as clearly gay sailor from the 1800’s saw some young muscular aborigines there and remarked (I imagine in a voice similar to Kenneth Williams) “ooh aren’t they manly” and this stuck as a name.
Bits of it look like Hartlepool
Bits of it look like Shipley Glen

Brisbane

Too early to tell but I was nearly asked to leave a supermarket for asking where their wine aisle was. Apparently it is illegal to sell booze in a supermarket here! And we are here for 5 days!!!
Stuff in general
There are no aborigines here in Australia; they have clearly been made up to make the Aussie’s seem more interesting
For a country with such a drinking reputation for drinking it is bloody expensive to drink here.
Two weeks of eating badly and drinking sporadically lead to beer belly and I have left my running shoes at home. I will need to either return home extremely fat or buy some over priced shoes whilst here.
For a country to work it needs a working public transport system – England take note
Teenage boys smell funny
It is difficult to upload photos to Offexploring website!

oliver
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