Sunday, August 13, 2006

Heat and ice

Our second Sunday here, and we found our way to church at St Andrews in Kowloon. It's a great place right in the middle of the commercial strip that is Nathan Road. The building is about 100 years old, built of red brick in a typical English parish church style, with tiled marble floors and some nice stained glass. It was very hot, humid and sunny this morning, but very cool inside the church - actually too cold after a bit (must remember to bring some warm clothes next time).
We took the Star Ferry home, and after lunch went to Cityplaza for necessary shopping. It was very busy there today, as there was a temporary exhibit of ice sculptures from Harbin, China. A huge queue of excitable people filled the whole area, and racks of warm, padded jackets were set up for visitors to use. We didn't feel like revisiting cold and ice so soon, so passed on that attraction.
Cityplaza has a permanent ice skating rink, so we watched the antics there for a bit. Most there were kids of the predicatbly amateur standard, struggling to stay upright, but one thin, middle-aged man seemed to think himself a pro, sweeping and gliding across the ice and raising his eyebrows coquettishly while striking elegant poses everytime he passed a suitable female.

1 Comments:

Blogger playfulinnc said...

your journey is fascinating!

12:06 pm  

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