Forrest Brown

One of the Hotels I stayed at in Hong Kong was the Empire Hotel in Causeway Bay. The room was very nice and had a glass wall between the shower/bathroom area and the main part of the hotel room. I’ve stayed in lots of hotels that had showers like that so I didn’t think it was too interesting at first. But then I realized that there was a extra light switch in the bathroom and when you flipped the switch the glass wall instantly turned a opaque white. Pretty High-Tech!

No spitting sign that I saw around the subway stations.

Everyone knows that Japan is famous for vending machines, but in Hong Kong I found a cool umbrella vending machine. I wonder if it’s connected to the weather so that it know to jack up the price when it’s raining.

One thing I had not seen before was the McCafe. At a lot of the McDonald’s there was a side section call McCafe, where it was more like a nice coffee shop with all of the things you would expect to find at a Starbucks or something similar.

My flight to Hong Kong landed around 11:00 at night. The final part of the flight and the landing turned out to be a bit of an adventure because Hong Kong was being hit by Typhoon Koppu. So things got pretty bumpy as we got closer to landing. But the plane landed safely and I was able to take a shuttle bus to my hotel near the airport.

The next morning the rain and winds were still pretty strong, but by around noon most of the storm had passed.

I’m heading for Hong Kong for 6 days.