Wolfy old boy. Thought I'de take the *****, (make you jealous :-)), a
bit and reveal to you that I'm off again tomorrow morning to SE Asia.
Arrive in HK via Bangkok on monday morning local time. Then it's a
boat trip across the south China sea to the mainland. It's only for a
week but ***** it, plenty of time to get some serious shopping done and
fill that gigantic empty bag that I'm taking with me with all sorts of
goodies...mainly fake designer clothes :-) This is the place I was the
first time I was in China...Zhuhai...close to Macou. The funny thing
was that when I went into the hotel bar I noticed it was called 'the
Blarney stone'. Kinda made me larf to see a Paddy bar there.

Actually it just occurred to me that the friday after I get back I'm
off to Dublin with the kids for a week's break. Not nearly as exotic
as China but hell, they pull a good pint of Guinness in Dublin. Plenty
of Paddy bars too :-)

WH