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News Forum - Hong Kong tourism nears pre-pandemic levels
From memory - not quite, but not far off. I transited through Kai Tak quite few times in the late eighties and nineties, usually on standby (back when I got cheap travel as British Airways staff), always liked the landing over the city centre, but thought the airport must have been a bit of nightmare for the pilots. -
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News Forum - British man lost in Thailand, family issues SOS appeal
Of course not. My point is that Thai cops will be motivated if the authorities are involved. -
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News Forum - Grain gamble: Decade-old rice from Surin warehouses still fresh
Rice is dried food, and dried food stores 'indefinitely' because fouling organisms require moisture. This is why items like rice are dried. -
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News Forum - Hong Kong tourism nears pre-pandemic levels
Is it true, by the way, that if you flew into Kai Tak, you could see inside people's windows as your plane approached the runway? Because that must have been epic and win. But it also sounds like one of those experiences, 'grows with the tellin', unquestioned because of the perspective in photos of aircraft coming in, maybe staring as a joke. -
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News Forum - Hong Kong tourism nears pre-pandemic levels
I reverted saw "New Port City" for myself. I want to see the road signage, but the 'city of darkness' was gone before I was old enough to visit. That and you no longer see planes flying so low over skyscrapers, to Kai Tak. Hong Kong's most iconic sights are this bygone memories, captured on film to feed the collective imaginination years later. Some places, you find or suspect, are cooler to imagine than to visit, at least by the time you're old or wealthy enough to visit. By the time I visited Singapore, some of the places I dreamed of were gone, not least the bird gardens. I felt lukewarm upon leaving her, if only I had visited her in my teens.
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