With my friends at work today, I've had the chance to explore Kennedy Town myself (so you have to forgive the selfies... When in Rome...). For me, when travelling, I'm generally more interested in what it's like to live in a place rather than seeing sites. I mean I'm not going to ignore Trip Advisors kind sorting of the best things to do in any one city, I just mean predominantly.
So today I've pretended I'm a regular HongKonger... Yawned and stretched and tried to take the view from the apartment for granted while I sipped my coffee. Afterwards I head out, first to a cafe for a breakfast of coffee and pain au chocolat overlooking the water. The water is insanely blue and I can see the bridge from Kowloon to HK island in the distance. Good start I think you'll agree - I just felt so content!
Then I go for a stroll. There's not loads to see in Kennedy Town tourism wise, but that's kind of how I wanted. I wanted to blend in. Naturally it doesn't help that I'm about a foot taller than most people, have a beacon of red hair and am snapping away at any given opportunity.
I find myself in Belcher Bay Park, an inner city patch of green with a cafe, a nice spot to sit in the sunshine, a children's playground... Pretty peachy for the middle HK. It's onky after I start to walk around that I notice everywhere I look there are people doing some very strange things. Balancing on one leg, waving manically, shaking their legs out in front of them, crouching behind bushes... They're everywhere! I hope you appreciate my candid camera shots... It took a few minutes but it suddenly dawned on me that they were doing tai chi, our something of that ilk. I know I'm supposed to be pretending that I'm all local and down with this stuff but it's fricking hilarious, I'm sorry...
Tonight I fly to Sydney, marking the end of the Asia part of my trip - it's all going so fast!
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