Sunday, October 25, 2020

Crowd

Try to catch a ferry to Hong Kong UNESCO Global Tung Ping Chau while domestic travel is a new reality here - a raucous experience to say the least.

Our family planned the trip during this weekend. It was only when I was heading to the ferry pier this morning, and I saw that the queue was ten times longer than that of fans outside Apple stores for the newest iPhone, that I had realized even an overloaded Titanic won't be able to accommodate the crowd.

It's far easier to change route and turn inland, finding a circuit for the pleasure of countryside hiking. At first, we aimed to get out of the city, but as time went on, it was obvious that it's even trickier to get away from the crowd. And more so for the noise-making crowd, those incessantly peevish people who talk more than walk.

It’s very hard not to go up to one of them and say, sotto voce out of the side of the mouth, “I think it is a huge pity to have that many noisy eruption in the wild." 

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