I'm on my way to one of favorite cities. Actually, it's a 3-way tie for me between New York (nothing like walking into Grand Central and feeling the sheer activity of the Big Apple) and Paris (no more beautiful city on earth and no other place where every conversation you overhear sounds beautiful due to the sheer poetic melodic flow of the language and Hong Kong ( towering homage to commerce in the midst of Asian sense of intrigue).
I loved HK the first time I was there 15 years ago and my affection has not been dampened even through the Turnover from the Brits to Chinese rule and through the endless building (although my ardor has been put to a bit of a test by the takeover of more and more of the harbor for commercial use).
Love the overheard conversations. It's not a beautiful language like French. It's a fast moving, clipped talk that sounds like life is moving fast and not a minute can be wasted.
I plan not to fritter any of it away this week. Ready for anything. Did an all-nighter last night to adapt to the Hong Kong time zone before departing New York..painful, but it's the answer to the jet lag dilemma. I swear. A bit of Ambien in a few minutes and I'll be on Hong Kong tome before we take off.
Talk to you soon from the jewel of Asia...
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