Getting ready for the next one...

India next - pretty excited, unsure of what to expect - though pretty positive that it's all going to be new and fabulous.  And it all starts with a new bike box - so with Ange in tow as double parking agent, we headed back to the Ngai Sang Paper Box company off Hollywood road.  Fung, who runs the shop was having lunch somewhere nearby when we got there, and instructed me to wait when I called him :-).  The upside of this was a quick explore of a fabulous old part of Hong Kong.  It is not without its humour - and that was just the parts that I could read in English.

Ngai Sang Paper Box company - custom double wall cardboard bicycle boxes for two hundred honkie.

A warning for those who are not yet committed to preserving our oceans.

And a message that Hong Kong could take note of from our good friend Albert.

For the record - and because the previous is too....

Even the next morning still, it seems so hard to believe.  Smiling smiling smiling.  And here we were, all those years ago...here: http://zipbang2.blogspot.com/2007/10/yeeeeeehaaaaa.html and here: http://zipbang2.blogspot.com/2007/10/on-way-to-mils-beach.html

Heading back to Hong Kong - transporting bikes with a big smile

This time I opted for a strip down and bubble-wrap rather than boxing Big Blue.  Half way done here, bike was filthy from
500kms of  beautiful yet autogeddon blacktops, rain and gravel.

At the check-in in DC - much more manageable than a box - but needs reassembly (so not good for the trip out).

Ange was working, the boys fast asleep - unpack the filthy beast...

With some help from Holly of course

Soapy water and a brush - cleaning and reassembling.

A somewhat naked without mudguards Big Blue, clean and in one piece on the patio.