Ordinary Gweilo

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Month: Jul 2016

  • Red minibuses

    Interesting article from the BBC about red minibuses in Hong Kong.  Things I already knew: red minibuses don’t follow fixed routes, and are very dangerous. Things I learned from this: red minibuses first appeared in 1967; green minibuses started in 1980; the government wants to phase out red minibuses and replace them with the more…

  • Hong Kong not so good–Airport Express

    Well, not really – the Airport Express is generally very good. The trains now terminate at Asiaworld-Expo, which is odd for an airport express, but it brings the MTR some additional revenue and normally it doesn’t create a problem Except when, after a concert, the trains arrive at the airport full of passengers. That means…

  • Clickbait from SCMP.com

    Monday's SCMP clickbait headline: Chinese airlines are consistently late for this one surprising reason. – It's not a surprising reason (spoiler alert: it's the military closing the airspace) Wednesday's rather boring story in the paper, with a clickbait headline online How developer Rykadan turned a Hong Kong basketball court into tiny flats for big profits.…

  • Modern life is rubbish

    After the woman who tried to push past me and fell into the gap between the train and the platform, another pleasing outcome… A woman is walking along, typing something into her mobile phone.  I walk past her and into the lift.  The doors close (I didn’t touch the button, honest).  She is left outside. …

  • Changing trains (Hong Kong MTR)

    I’m always interested in other views of the MTR, including this one: hong kong metro: five transfers?? I jumped onto Google looking for hotels that would be convenient to the rail line from the airport.  Yikes! Is it my imagination, or am I seeing that: Only three stations in the city are on the Airport…