I saw the umbrella protestors camps in 2 different parts of town… On Nathan Rd in Kowloon and at Causeway Bay. The latter was blocking several blocks of the tram line. Lots of tents under canopies. Not many people around, no rallies when I walked by.
I like the web-riffed T-shirts that say
Error 404 – democracy not found.
Miniature paper umbrellas (like in tropical cocktails) support wall.
Still the coolest airport around
Spam flavoured macadamia nuts
Poster on bus – it looks like she is chugging a wine bottle
Wait, they needed to explicitly forbid urinating and defecating on the bus?
Diamond Head was nice and clear
Just bought my 7 day ordinary class Japan Rail Pass voucher. ¥29,110 charged as CA$313 (US$279 on my cc).
Surprisingly it’s not tied to a passport, just spelling of my name on the pass has to match my passport when I go to exchange the voucher for the actual pass once in Japan.
Received my approved e-visa today ($50 online application, 5 days to get). No need to courier a passport. Sweet.
1 week in early December.
Just booked the SIN-RGN (Yangon) round trip flight too, on SQ (Singapore Airlines)
From top to bottom ( i hope they aren’t really that small like thumbnails in the post)
1. A temple with a large boa statue on top
2. The pink banners just went up while I was here, for breast cancer awareness month
3. McGuyanaver moment – the outlets were loose and my mobile phone battery charger wouldn’t stay in, so the band aid worked at first, but needed reinforcement from the water bottle
4. Cars on the beach and people in the sediment-laden waters
5. Waves in the brown water, brown as far as you can see
6. Little fish, maybe mudskippers, playing in the water movement close to shore (2 beady eyes on top of their head out of the water, and they skipped along the surface)
7. View from the entrance to the rather wide and brown Demerara River
8. Yeah, i think that circuit breaker panel looks to code
Random notes:
– longest floating bridge
– heavy traffic at 2pm already, getting out of town
– big cricket stadium
– mosque with a volleyball net in the yard!
– some houses on stilts
– most of G/Town is actually below sea level, hence the big seawall along the Atlantic coast in town
– 270mL bottles of beer. Local brand is Banks, definitely drinkable
– Canadian School of Arts and Science about half way tithe airport
– I did see a handful of people swimming in the muddy water today
– on Sundays, the seawall is packed with people
Cool flower growing on the side of a tree
Look at the size of the trunk of that palm on the right!
This washroom door handle is just above my knee…
On the flight here from Panama, I said the flight attendant in biz that it looked pretty empty in back, to which replied “no, it’s pretty full, they’re just short.” (he was Panamanian, since Copa is based there; and he was right)
Speaking of biz I finally received my last upgrade for tomorrow, oh happy days 
Of left-side driving countries.
I’m not sure why the Dutch did this… But in St Croix, USVI (formerly Dutch) they drive on the left side too, albeit in that case with normally-on-the-right-side vehicles, which is extra weird and unsafe.