When you go on vacation, it’s an opportunity to do different things that you wouldn’t do at home.
One of those things for me is to wake up early. I woke up at 0630 after a deep sleep. Couldn’t sleep any more.
Since today is the 11th, there’s a morning flag raising ceremony in Wan Chai.
This is one of the things that I’ve never seen (the other is the firing of the Noonday Gun) here in HK. From what I’ve been told about the ceremony, it’s still in the British style. Lots of foot stamping and shouted commands in english.
This compares to the daily ceremony in Tienanmen Square where you’ve got 32 goose-stepping PLA soldiers goose-stepping across Chang’an Lu.
And if there was any doubt of the traditional aspects of the HK ceremony, these guys played at the end. You could hear them three blocks away!
I shot some video with my Ixus but you’ll have to wait until I get back to see it. iPhoto only downloads photos. Now I need to get some breakfast.