Downpour

About half way across the harbour on the way back from Kowloon today it started raining very hard. The harbour became a boiling soup, with curtains of rain sweeping across the skyline, and the ferry sailors struggled to pull the plastic curtains across to shield passengers. Noone really minded getting a bit wet though - I suppose it's a common occurrence in late summer Hong Kong. We managed to make our way home from the ferry pier without getting too soaked: hugging the buildings, running madly across streets, and finally sheltering in 7-11 to buy the Sunday papers.
Then we spent an afternoon as we hadn't for well over 4 years - sitting on a sofa, with quality English-language newspapers to read and nothing much else to do. Bliss.