Hongkong

The trip to Hongkong was one of my last business trips before retirement.

For whatever reason I have not had any earlier chance. It was a very densly packed trip, with meetings, presentations and ‘informal’ activities lasting even into the nights. I wished I had more time to explore this Megacity. With this time pressure I was rushing taking pictures in order to get just some impressions and enjoy later.

However, I was seemingly shocked seeing the way this small area provides living space for millions of people. The solution: residential monster silos! Thousands and thousands of copy-and-paste created human loopholes make the boring facades almost attractive as one looks constantly for a discontinuation … but there is none. Total conformity instead of creativity.

And I could not believe my eyes, seeing the way these human honeycombs are being built… Seeing a multi-storey bamboo scaffolding is already pretty scary, but an outside attached bamboo-floor stretched the reality far beyond my imagination. Bloody hell – working out and up there requires courage and huge trust – more than I would ever have.

So – despite the very limited time – it was an interesting trip with little but still exciting experiencing the city.