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Hong Kong Briefing 26 November Ahead Of Transfer From Guangzhou To Hong Kong 29 November 1993

Three blithering pages of notes on how to go about transferring from our tour ending in Guangzhou to the unguided part of our holiday, starting in Hong Kong.

Perhaps some need reminding/informing that Hong Kong was still a British protectorate in 1993 – the “one country, two systems” transfer to Chinese rule thing was still at the planning stage.

To be fair, only the first page-and-a-half was really about the tortuous transfer – the rest was about what we might do in Hong Kong once we got there.

I won’t decipher my hieroglyphics in this piece but might extract some elements of them in my reports of our transfer to and then our time in Hong Kong.

China Trip – Guangzhou, 28 November 1993

28 Nov Guangzhou – Half day tour in morning – Temple Of Six Banyan Trees & Pagoda & then Chen Family Academy with rice-sized carvings etc.

View of Guangzhou, I think from our hotel/hotel room

Temple of the Six Banyan Trees

…and Pagoda…

Chan Family Academy

Child prodigy

I honoured the guide on our (Sally’s) coach in Guangzhou, who had the unfortunate name of Dhung, with:

The Neil Kinnock Award For Repetitive Speech

No photos from the latter half of the day.

Dim sum lunch at Friendship Restaurant followed by free afternoon – we just rested – then banquet in evening – food good and fun – went to local bar afterwards and then home.

I honoured one of the waitresses at the Friendship Restaurant with:

The Mr Bean Award For Dexterity

I suspect it was at the end of tour banquet that my “awards” got their airing. Here is a link to a facsimile of all four pages I wrote out:

1993 China Tour “Awards”, 28 November 1993

All the photos we took on that day – by which I mean all 16 photos – can be seen in raw form in the Flickr album below:

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China Trip – Guilin To Guangzhou, 27 November 1993

27 Nov. Guilin -> Guangzhou. Lie in / late start. Went for walk around Guilin then early lunch…

Nice views of Guilin – from our hotel or even hotel room, I’m guessing

…outing to reed flute caves (via a hill climb). Caves stunning – wandered around market after and then on to very early dinner (tea) & off to airport.

The notes don’t say so, but I recall that Janie and I were feeling much better this day.

Short flight to Guangzhou – several of our party were nearly run over by a passing plane – straight to hotel – White Swan – wandered round a bit & then early night.

No comment on the near death experience yet again in the hands of early 1990s Chinese domestic airlines.

I did give that China Southern flight second prize in the:

Claustrophobics Anonymous Award For Comfort.

I also honoured that airline/flight with the:

Gatwick Handling Award For In flight Catering for its crunchy water-chestnut drink and Darkie Mints…

…I remember the latter came in distinctly politically incorrect packaging.

All the photos we took on that day – by which I mean all 24 photos – can be seen in raw form in the Flickr album below:

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