Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Po Toi O time travel for lunch

Been on the road, so took some time off over lunch on a grey-grey windy day, and walked with Angie to Po Toi O fishing village, felt time slowing down with each step closer.  Can't remember if we went here together, perhaps one night, but it is time travel and a delight - if not we should make a date for it this time.

Houseboats, more boats, floating pontoons, grungy as can be - some interesting salty smells.

Inside one of the restaurants - basic as all hell - dodgy perspex windows rattling the in the wind, see-through bin-liner sheeting on plywood disk tables, and then wild wonderful fresh seafood, spiced with fiery chili - smashed down in chipped enamel dishes.  Fantastic.  A couple next to us tuck into a massive crab. 

On the way back, walked out and full, there is one bus, which comes infrequently.  The driver finds the whole thing all a bit taxing, so lets you on, and then switches off the engine and cracks back for a quick power-nap.  Lovely, slow-life, while thirty kms away the city runs amok.

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