On crossing that border
The other day Myles and I made an impromptu day trip to Hong Kong. When the ferry terminal is walking distance away, it is easy to decide to catch the next ferry out of the country.
Since one of our stops was IKEA on the KCR line, I thought it might be easier to take the train back into China. This involves crossing the border at Lo Wu (Cantonese) or Luo Hu (Mandarin). After you get off the train on the Hong Kong side of the border, you proceed through Hong Kong exit immigration. Then you walk through the train station over the actual border and continue through to Chinese immigration and customs. While we've done this a few times in the past year. for some reason that day it struck Myles as particularly funny how we passed from one "country" into another. As he related to his father over dinner what we had done on our day out of the country, "And then, we just walked right into China. How funny is that? We just walked right into China."
Since one of our stops was IKEA on the KCR line, I thought it might be easier to take the train back into China. This involves crossing the border at Lo Wu (Cantonese) or Luo Hu (Mandarin). After you get off the train on the Hong Kong side of the border, you proceed through Hong Kong exit immigration. Then you walk through the train station over the actual border and continue through to Chinese immigration and customs. While we've done this a few times in the past year. for some reason that day it struck Myles as particularly funny how we passed from one "country" into another. As he related to his father over dinner what we had done on our day out of the country, "And then, we just walked right into China. How funny is that? We just walked right into China."
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