shopping

With the millions of tourists traveling to London every year the transport system and public areas can get pretty crowded. To keep in good with the locals and allow people to get where they need to go in London stand to the right of the escalators. This allows a free space on the left for those keen enough or wanting to to get past and on their way.

It is not a matter of filling up every step as full as possible as some of the escalators in London, especially on the Tube can be quite long and you won't be popular if you can't get out of the way of the busy local trying to get up faster.

Granville Island is one of my favourite places to go when in Vancouver. Although technically an island, it's located in central Vancouver, on the south shore under the Granville Street Bridge and can be accessed by boat, by car, by bus, by bicycle or on foot.

This is a truly remarkable place if you're up for a bit of market shopping, some fresh seafood, some culture, or just to sit & watch the world go by on the wharf outside the food hall (generally to the tune of a busker or two).

If your buying Electronics in Hong Kong it can be easy to become overwhelmed by all of the options and let me preface this by saying I love Hong Kong.

General rule of thumb applies here - if it looks too good it probably is. I have been to HK many times and on my most recent trip I wanted a Video camera. I went to one shop who gave me a price on one of the Cameras in the window display of one of the bright neon lit stores you will see, generally in Kowloon around Nathan Road or the Golden Mile.

This is the usual sales routine as I tried it on a couple of them :