'Hong Kong - China's window to the world and the gateway to China.'
Monday 11-9-98 Bus ride to Port Authority Arrive Hampton Inn - Meadowlands 7:30 PM $50 cab fare.
Tuesday 11-10-98 Bus from Hampton Inn to Statue of Liberty. Ran into Dave and Wanda Christian from Minnesota - Spent the day with them. My auctioneer friends.
Wednesday 11-11-98 Got a quick ride in a BMW from Hampton Inn..3 Bobs textile merchants familiar with Hong Kong - "No bottom to negotiating. " Gave "Spin" book for ride. Port Authority to JFK airport $13 arrived very early cased place clean - secure Gave wool sport coat to bell boy (I didn't need it to travel in Orient.)
Wednesday night 7 - 10..Spoke with two businessmen from Singapore Stock brokers.. engineers.
Thursday - 20 hour flight /Friday. 747 Awesome - Digital TV screens with LCD statistics altitude.. distance traveled.. to go. trajectories. Times. Witnessed celestial daybreak.. Arrived in Hong Kong 1/2 hour ahead of schedule. Customs no problem 2 boxes of cigarettes for Australian friend. Bus to Holiday Inn $12 HK.
HONG KONG IS A UNIQUE CITY! Fastest city I've ever visited Sophisticated - gold - clothing - jewelry - electronics.
Holiday Inn Friday Hong Kong - Golden Mile.. Excellent accommodations.
clean Room 1114 Special rate $114/night. Cabs very clean reasonable. Began getting feel of city. Found restaurant at Holiday Inn good food.. fancy most reliable . ETB (early to bed) Decided on taking tour on Saturday.
8:30 Saturday - Tour of Hong Kong Island. Awesome bus ride over Hong Kong Island .. mountainous highly developed.. Skyscraper miracle..road to top. excellent tour guide.
Tourism.. Jewelry Electronics.. Finance. Some wealthy people live here.. Rolls Royce.. Mercedes Benz Japanese.. incredible mix of people. Toured jewelry-making facility. Fast, fast, pace. Everyone hustles your $... nothing appleals to me .. Suit-makers grab you off the streets. can make in 6 hours. Boat tour of harbor.. Boat people. Saturday night - splendid views of Hong Kong.. revolving restaurants.
Sunday - Early AM walk - saw one rat in gutter! People milling all around, everywhere. Walked to the cultural center at Harbor edge. Thoroughly enjoyed the Hong Kong Space Museum. opened at 10 AM Excellent history of rocketry + US vs Russia space travel Proud of US Space accomplishments.. Family oriented.
Seen enough of the glitz! Decided to eat good supper. Lamb chops buffet. excellent food throughout. ready to leave Hong Kong for Vietnam!
ROBERT LOUIS POTVIN
1/2 WORLD TRAVELER
Box 11
West Brookfield, MA
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