End of week two

Today was the end of the second week in Hong Kong. This morning I started with a walk around Victoria Park. The park is popular with people who want to get outside. There were lots of people wandering around, playing soccer and tennis on the concrete pitches, sitting on the path, exercising (variations of Tai Chi again), and playing with model boats on the pond. I worked out eventually that the pond is specially constructed for exactly that purpose.




I didn't manage to get a photo, but there was a guy running a racing boat around the longer part of the pond - you can see the space in the background. It went really fast - the sign actually says that the second part of the pond is restricted for fast running. There were other guys with similar boats, and I hung around for a while hoping that they would race. However it was evidently more about a social time spent chatting and (I guess) comparing the relative advantages and disadvantages of each boat.

The families seemed to be having more fun teaching their young children how to drive the boats.

Then this afternoon walking into Central. The newspaper this morning had an advertisement for a hotel/residential development in Queenstown called "The Shore". I walked to the Ritz-Carlton where they had a conference room set up. Great to hear Kiwi accents from the developers. Nice looking places, but I wonder about the financials of investing in this type of development.

This evening I'll head out and re-stock the food cupboard for the room in preparation for Sonia's arrival on Tuesday. Wouldn't do to be empty at the wrong time! And of course the gym - it's great being somewhere where the gym is close and convenient. Reading the entry Sharon and Sonia put onto the World Tour Blog, I suspect I've got the better arrangement at the moment :-)