Tubby Hubby (TH) and I have favourite spots to go to. We call them our "happy places" – which is rather self-explanatory, really.So far, our happy places in Hong Kong have been restaurants (Bizou along Elgin Street is one and any Pizza Express outlet is another) and bookshops (Flow on Lyndhurst Terrace).
Then TH took me to Hong Kong Disneyland for my birthday and we absolutely loved it. Being journalists, we approached it with a hefty dose of skepticism but we found it a charming place – in a post-modern ironic kind of way of course, as TH would say.
The only thing is, you have to leave all cynicism at the door and give in to the "magic" or else you'd miss it completely. We love it, the kitschy parades, the inane mascots, the fireworks, the goofy grins on everyone's faces (not just Goofy's)...
So much so we bought annual passes. "I never thought I'd see the day I'd actually get an annual pass to Disneyland," says TH, who is a big Carl I-hate-Disneyland Hiaasen fan.
But he has. And I (blush) actually have Minnie Mouse ears hanging on the door. Bring on the magic, Tinkerbell.
2 comments:
I have to say that I find your discovery of Disney Land HK as a happy place quite worrying if not a little disturbing. Wot you need moi dear is a taster of the West Countries Finest 'The Big Sheep'. Now that's an amusement park! They have even got Lama's now and a sheepdog that rounds up....ducks.
Awesome!
TH says: "Bah!" Or is that "Baa"?
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