The Moped Diaries

We’ve seen one big Buddha (Dulcie is the one in the hat)….

And over twelve thousand little Buddhas, each one unique (we’ll take their word for that)…

So now it’s time to leave Hong Kong and head back to Canada. Dulcie may be a little slimmer now having been on the “chopstick diet” for some time. It’s not just that food is difficult to eat with chopsticks (especially birthday cake) but the traditional Chinese food is not always very appetizing (the skewered ox tongue was only slightly more tempting than the sweet and sour tripe).
We have, however, been suitably impressed with the public transport here. With one wave of a magic pre-paid card we’ve been able to ride the tram, the bus, the funicular railway (my favourite!), the ferry, the train and buy chocolate from the local shop (Dulcie’s favourite).
Tomorrow we’ll fly over the international date line again so we’ll land before we set off (it’s a good job we didn’t fly on Dulcie’s birthday or I’d have to buy her two presents and she’d be an extra year older).

A slight change of travel plans – we are now in Hong Kong!! After four weeks of Cambodia, delivering 26 water filters, building two classrooms and touring around we decided it was a case of “seen one temple; see ’em all” and extended our 6 hour layover in Hong Kong to ten days. This gave us the chance to visit some old friends (Graeme and Fredrique) who now live here on a boat. During our visit, Graeme offered to take me kayaking around Discovery Bay.

He obviously hadn’t read the earlier blog entry regarding my expert kayaking skills and true to form after a short while we were swimming instead of paddling. This shouldn’t have been a problem as Dulcie and Fred were following in the dinghy but they’d run out of fuel! Fortunately the coast guard weren’t required and we all got back safely (if a little wet).

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