Greetings From HK

So i'm writing this from a very posh hotel in Hong Kong. I decided to take a trip over here to renew my visa and find out what all the fuss is about. It's a fanatstic place. Springs arrived so it's T-shirt weather.It's not soaked in yet but I'm going to be sorry to leave (but I don't think my ever lame wallet will agree)but I need to work.
I arrived here yesterday with Don, who's in another city doing some businessmantypethings, so we got here at midnight and then went out for a few beers down this trendy street (cue 4 pounds for a pint of Tetleys) Now, dear readers, I haven't tasted that milk of the yorkshire angels in a 'mighty' long time and you know what, it tasted 'muchos muchos bien' (I told you I'm learning Spanish?)So I come to the most cosmopolitan city in the east and order Tetley Smooth bitter..............you can take the boy out of Manchester.......etc.
So yeah, it was good to get out with The Don, catch up, swap some stories and so on.....very good night. I was staying at a hostel (3 square metre room with bunk bed for a tenner???!!) so I woke up with the obligatory sore neck and such like and trundled down to the consul to sort my visa out.....that was really boring. Anyhoo, I then had a wee trip around this great place. I went to Hong Kong harbour and took a ferry across it....HK Harbour is like a cross between 'The Apprentice ' and 'Miami Vice', there are helicopters speeding through the sky, yachts, business monkeys everywhere, bad suits, good suits etc. So that was pretty cool.
So Hong Kong is now a part of China-I think it's called a municipality-but it's probably not, we gave it back a few years ago, which I think is a good thing. Although it's part of mainland China it couldn't be more different. The Hong Kongese people are really polite and speak great English, if you need help in Hong Kong, just stand in the street with a map and a really confused look on your face (I tried to remember the words to Shaddapa Ya Face) and someone will say 'Excuse me sir....do you need help!!!' That would rarely happen anywhere else in China.
Anyway, I'll blog some more soon, I'm going back to Hangzhou tonight, then doing a gig tomoz and then up to Shanghai for a few days.
So all in all Hong Kong is the place to be, a city built on a mountain. How cool is that?
I was thinking before (whilst on the ferry) that us Brits should be proud of our old colonial days. OK, putting aside the raping, pillaging, setting up dictatorships in far off places and all that, we have taught a few few people a few manners. Maybe we should reinstate the idea of The British Empire and take over China for a couple of hundred years?!
The views expressed in this blog are by no means a reflection or any likeness to the actual opinions of any bald headed, guitar playing balloon that is currently residing in China.
Until next time
Ciao