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: Jun 2017
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Simon Jenkins, writing about the fire at Grenfell Tower, apparently thinks Hong Kong is “squalid”: Simon Jenkins has a reputation for being wrong in the vast majority of his columns. Almost everyone in Hong Kong lives in high-rise housing (for some striking photographs, take a look at Michael Wolf’s Architecture of Density). Around 30% of the…
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The MTR “train trip planner” recommends that for early and late departures from East Rail stations to the airport you should go via Hung Hom, Nam Cheong & Tsing Yi. This seems like bad advice, because it requires you to use two of the worst interchanges on the MTR: At Nam Cheong, you can stroll…
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How charmingly Viennese:
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