After one of our classes today we decided to head out for some food together at a local tapas restaurant. The food was great, and the company even better. The cool part about getting there was taking the world's longest escalator. Hong Kong in general has escalators everywhere in its subway system and its buildings, which makes sense because this is such a vertical city. But Hong Kong's solution to providing access to its elevated, mountainous region is to slap an elevated pedestrian escalator on itself. Now its residents don't have to climb inconvenient steps, they just hop on to an airport style escalator that conveys them from the lower part of the city to the higher part of the city. Simple!
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Tapas in Hong Kong
The exchange students here with me are great people, and it has been fun getting to know them better. There is the usual mix of party animals, intellectuals, and comedians, but all of them have traveled extensively and have some great stories to tell.
After one of our classes today we decided to head out for some food together at a local tapas restaurant. The food was great, and the company even better. The cool part about getting there was taking the world's longest escalator. Hong Kong in general has escalators everywhere in its subway system and its buildings, which makes sense because this is such a vertical city. But Hong Kong's solution to providing access to its elevated, mountainous region is to slap an elevated pedestrian escalator on itself. Now its residents don't have to climb inconvenient steps, they just hop on to an airport style escalator that conveys them from the lower part of the city to the higher part of the city. Simple!
After one of our classes today we decided to head out for some food together at a local tapas restaurant. The food was great, and the company even better. The cool part about getting there was taking the world's longest escalator. Hong Kong in general has escalators everywhere in its subway system and its buildings, which makes sense because this is such a vertical city. But Hong Kong's solution to providing access to its elevated, mountainous region is to slap an elevated pedestrian escalator on itself. Now its residents don't have to climb inconvenient steps, they just hop on to an airport style escalator that conveys them from the lower part of the city to the higher part of the city. Simple!
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