On the road again

Hello there,

this is me, in Asia again. I traveled to Hong Kong, through Zurich. Booked a Swiss flight. Got onto an Austrian Airline machine. Interesting. Before, when i had booked AUA, i never got AUA, so Swiss is the key... anyways, just about an hour to Zurich. With a small little Do&Co meal, nice, so that's the remains of Laudaair in Austrian Arrows.

Zurich. I like that airport. Somehow futuristic. I especially like the underground train without a driver, i.e., driven by fuzzy control. Took some pictures again.
They added some screens on the side of the track, but i couldn't follow too much of that because i was just to fascinated by the front screen, i mean, the windshield. Sitting first row without a driver. Here's a video i made so you can join the excitement :-P


Flight to HK was okay. Swiss A340. Everyone's got her/his own entertainment system, a small screen and a cable remote that looks like a crossing between a SNES controller and a mobile phone. I tried one of the games and crashed the system. Hung up. And still ten hours of flight in front of me. Well, the nice flight attendants could reboot my machine without stopping all others, too.
Fortunately. So i could watch some of the movies:
Harry Potter 5: i had missed it in cinemas thanks to living in the KSA where there are no cinemas. What can i say. Still happy i didn't read any of the books. I know, the story will be better/deeper there, but still. It's so random, unconnected, feels like only kids won't notice. But still, the movies are fun. You can see that there's a lot of money put into them. They look polished and are entertaining. The end battle with loads of wizards and the camera flying around them - well, that's something i would have preferred to see on the silver screen instead of that little LCD 20cm in front of my nose in the plane. But well, at least i managed to see the movie. Airplane movies are good for catching up on what you've missed.
Then i watched the Simpsons Movie again. Niiice. Looking forward to the DVD. Till then i'll watch the season six and nine DVDs i got with me.
In the end i started watching Live free or Die Hard. Thought there was enough time. But after the first 20 minutes they cut off the entertainment system, too close to HK already. Guess i'll get the DVD of that one. Hehe, my first Die Hard DVD that might be. Maybe i'll wait for a nice box set, if that'll ever happen (there were some problems with different distributers in Europe for the first three, hence no set so far).

Anyways, arrival in Hong Kong.

This is HK airport. First person i talked to here was a nice lady who asked me to remove my baseball cap. Because they scan the temperature of your head before you go through customs. Interesting.
One of the first things i have noticed was that they drive 'on the wrong side', i.e., on the left. Heritage of being a UK colony... i'll see if that is different on Chinese mainland. But left or right, got to my hotel safe and sound.

Yet another hotel room. 21st floor, no impressive view.
Well, the lobby.
My first meal in Hong Kong. Soy and regular milk, tea and water. Interesting sizes, like 278ml packages and so forth.
Did a night walk before i went to sleep.
Now that's a skyline! My hotel is on the opposite side of Hong Kong Island.
The thing on the left looks like a concert hall. Kinda reminded me of the Sydney opera, the way it is put there in the harbour. One minute later they turned of the lights.
Street lights.
Chinese...
Hong Kong dollars. On the smalles coin you can find Elisabeth II :-)
Continental breakfast.

That's all, folks!