Ordinary Gweilo
It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writing (mainly) about Hong Kong
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Month: Dec 2010
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So it’s Russia in 2018, and, er, Qatar in 2022. There has been entirely predictable outrage in England about the failure of the World Cup bid. Apparently some delegates promised they would vote for England, but then voted for someone else! Well, who could possibly have expected that? The Sun (predictably) has another angle: It’s…
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Cathay Pacific and Dragonair yesterday – Hong Kong to Shanghai. Two cancellations, and delays of 2-3 hours on most flights in the afternoon, and even worse coming back to Hong Kong, with delays of 3-4 hours: