So, from the beautiful Butterfly on Wellington, fairly basic but beautiful all the same, to Korea.
Woke rested, packed, with all sorts of plans for the morning, thwarted by the discovery that my flight left two hours earlier than I had remembered.
A quick taxi ride to the town check-in desk at Hong Kong Station in the lower reaches of the IFC Building. And another aimless wander in the endless shopping malls above. The best store is the City Super, a great exotic (expensive) supermarket selling odd things like chocolate covered crisps. Free sample tasted good, and they came highly recommended by Max's friends. A tawdry breakfast at 'Asian Twist', sad considering had planned another assault on Luk Yu for more dim sum. Oh well.
The airport express is super cool and super efficient. A smooth silent departure from the very centre of HK, leaving every 10 minutes, and taking 25 mins to reach the airport. What else to say? A good efficient Korean Airlines flight, and then a four hour bus journey to the North of Seoul, to the High1 Resort at the Kangwonland Hotel. A super room on the 20th floor, massive, everything you could ask for including the most wonderful bathroom, to which I'm about to repair.
Will be a fairly short night, lost yet another hour as the clocks shot forward!
OK, just had to add a postscript.
The loo is no ordinary loo.
It has a heated seat.
And more than that, has an inbuilt bidet system with adjustable rhythm of water delivery, and a fine hot air drying system...
Korea, I'm impressed.
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