After Hong Kong we returned to China, taking a fast ferry into the Pearl River Delta to visit a factory, which was of impressive quality. The factory, not the ferry.
The ferry was pretty impressive though, zipping between massive container ships. I have never seen so many ships in my life, from leviathans to dows, most of them carrying containers, even the dows.
I do wonder how the container shipping business manages to consistently get stuff from A to B without losing it.
Anyway, after a factory tour we did lunch in a local restaurant with the factory owner then did some product development work back at the factory and headed off to the airport to fly to Shanghai.
We arrived in darkness and headed straight to dinner downtown and then had a 90 minute drive to the hotel somewhere in Haining. The hotel was interesting - luxurious for a start but with quirky touches. Such as the basket of goodies by the bed - socks, shorts, condoms, 'arousing cream' and... a pack of playing cards. Maybe strip poker is a big thing in Haining.
The Haining factory visit was very good and then back to Shanghai and its other airport to fly to Singapore. After a relatively restful time in HK, the travel schedule is becoming bruising.