Home Travel Diving Running Kids Mail us		18-25 October 2003 Off to the races at Happy Valley on Wednesday night to lose some money. Even the race track in Hong Kong is high rise. But rather than being in the multi-story members enclosure we are slumming it in the $10 public enclosure. The girls complete the picture by taking out McDonalds. Charles is already celebrating after a tidy win on the second race. Will he still be up by the end of the evening we think. Meanwhile Maria, Maverick and Nick all look pleased to have escaped from the office for an early night. Most of us leave Happy Valley before the gambling really takes hold. On Friday night we are out again, this time sampling the food in SoHo. Loraine, Maria and Louise look like they have enjoyed the local Spanish cuisine. Hong Kong has got very misty in the mornings. Great views from the top of the Centre tower. By the afternoon things have cleared as this shot from our hotel in Quarry Bay shows. A walk across Victoria Park on Saturday afternoon reveals a great local interest in martial arts. (nb Tommy). Don't get too close to that sword lesson, they look really sharp. These guys with sticks (spears?) look a bit more benign. They clearly don't have laws about carrying knives about in public places here. These ones look lethal. I feel a lot safer with this woman doing Tai Chi. Finally a small lake in the park is host to the fastest remote controlled boat racing I have ever seen. These sleek craft shoot up and down the lake like bullets although as I watched one overturned and looked very sad and wet.