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Hong Kong November 11th 1993 It’s so cool waking up here in my inner sheet – in this warm room – by the
Bolivians playing their guitars while practicing their singing. It’s like
we all have known each other for a very long time - & not only since
yesterday. The girl from Then we went ticket hunting – It was warm & I didn’t want to spend all day running around to get a super cheap ticket to Hanoi – so I agreed on the first offer we got – Annemette wasn’t very pleased. Then we went over to Royal Nepal Air & changed the ticket from the December 17th – to December the 10th. & THEN we went shopping – I bought 3 silk ties with Mickey Mouse & Goofy for 100 HK$. When we got back to Nathan road – there were a huge fire across the street – don’t even want to think about that would happen if our house caught up in a fire while we were up on 9th floor. We had talked to Søren about going to a cinema but couldn’t find him. November 12th 1993 I like Hong Kong – what a pity I didn’t get here before now – in a very short time the Chinese will take over & ruin everything! Woke up to another extremely warm day – had pancakes at the McDonald & hot chocolate with marshmallow – drink hot when it’s hot someone once told me. Then we found another travel agency & booked our tickets Saigon – Phnom Penh – Bangkok & then we were in the mood for shopping! Took the Star ferry over to Hong Kong Island – (Hong Kong is full of islands) Tried to find a bus to Stanley (we’d been told there was a great market there) Met our Indians in the tunnel system – they were singing & playing guitar – it sounded great. Found a bus to Aberdeen – there were nothing to see except for a lot of house boats & Junkers. Then we found the right bus to Stanley – a double- deck. Cool! It was a pretty ride – Beautiful mountains & bays – expensive houses in Repulse Bay. We found the market & had a very good time in there – buying silk & t-shirts. On the way back we drove another route – between palm trees & flowers – sailing ships on a blue blue ocean – then through the Aberdeen tunnel & SPOING we were back in the city. Picked up our tickets & went looking for factory out-lets – bought some things for almost no money & went back to 9th floor to show Bettina what we had bought. She ran down there too. Spend the evening with her – Roland & Søren at the Kangaroo Bar & had
a lot of goodbye beers. At a semi drunken stage we talked Bettina into meeting
us in Katmandu for Christmas – Søren was going to be there too & agreed
on meeting up with us – Roland wasn’t so sure. After all the beers we were
hungry & found a McD. & after that I finally got a hold on my mum
back home in a telephone shop. She didn’t agree on the idea about going to Then we walked home & met Jeppe & Jacob from the café in Kunming – that’s what I had tried to explain to my mum – I meet all these people & we keep bumping into each other again & again. I’m not the only one traveling with my back pack – we make trails for one another. November 13th 1993 Woke up at 9:00 am – had a shower & packed the last – said goodbye to the rest of the room- mates & left for the airport. At the bus stop someone grabbed my arm & it was Morten & Dan (from the Trans Siberian train – somehow they had lost Rikke & Mona). The airport is huge & the runways go straight out in the harbor. So the flights are landing & taking off between the houses. Met a German purser from a cruise ship who was also going to Goodbye Hong Kong! At 4:10 pm we landed safely in Hanoi International Airport – it looked like something from an old Humphrey Bogart movie. A bus drove us 10 meters to the terminal where we lined up in emigration queue – got our passports stamped & walked out to find our luggage - a bus took us in to Hanoi for 4$ a person. This is so totally different – we looked out on water buffalos – pastel colored houses mopeds & people wearing funny hats. The bus driver drove us to Darling Café in the Old Quarter & here the owner found us a room in a near by hotel. It’s okay – BUT right next to a karaoke bar |
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