Things Learned In...Hong Kong

And now, another exciting installment of "Things Learned In...", the Hong Kong edition.

1. Heat - they don't have it! Except the most expensive homes owned billionaires, residences in HK don't have central heat. Even condos costing a million dollars US. The temperature has been in the 40s and 50s the whole time we have been here. Brandon and Laura would feel right at home here. If we were at home, we would have the heat on 80.

2. Running out of land is a minor inconvenience - they just build more. The land our hotel is on is part of a massive reclamation project. It didn’t exist about ten years ago. The entire HK airport is built on land that was created out of thin air (well, water, actually). 

Where this airport now sits (the entire land mass you see in the picture) there used to exist only water

3. MTV Asia actually shows videos.

4a. Karen can actually reach the overhead hand golds on the MTR. In DC, she basically performs ont he parallel bars on the Metro to try and hold on. Here she can easily reach, since the holds are at a height designed for her type of people.

4b. Eric hits his head on things in mass transit in HK. On the MTR the bar running the length of the entire car is three inches below his head; if he doesn't duck, it hurts. But not nearly as much as the street trolleys, where upstairs the roof is below his height, and the wood cross supports constantly bang the front and back of his head - it hurts and he doesn't like it.