We Love......

Asian hotels

The highlight of our last morning in Venice was the first acqua alta of the season. Such a joy to go down for breakfast to find water seeping through the floor in the restaurant and the staff wearing gumboots. Most entertaining although one American coupole who came down took one look and fled. It seemed the locals wore stylish gummies, Japanese had bought the large plastic bags with strap on treads and some of us put on our jandals and went for it. Mind you did give the feet and legs a good scrub afterwards.

Forked out for a water taxi from the hotel to the airport (as opposed to public transport). Good flights from Venice to Munich and Munich to Hong Kong.

So cool to drive up to the Hong Kong hotel and be greeted by the usual phalanx of personnel (one to open the cab door and make sure we weren't being ripped off, one to open the boot and remove our bags, another to marshall bags ready to have them taken upstairs (by another person) one to hand over the pink rose to Ju while we were checking in, the check-in staff, the person to show us to the lift and the chap who brought our bags up to the room and show us were absolutely everything in the room was. Fantastic room. Bed the size of a small European principality. Quite as. Fantastic shower etc....

So from the time of landing to getting onto the train, into a taxi, into the hotel, into the room, unpacked and showered was about the same time as it took for my bags to appear in room. Ahh such rich and varied experiences we're having!

Went for a walk across a couple of blocks and up Nathan Rd some way. In short order I could have arranged tailoring of many top quality (but no doubt shiny) suit, ties and shorts, eaten many fine meals, and bought an array of "copy bags" and "copy watches". Some things don't change!

No great plans made for tomorrow. Will see what develops.