Neighbour In The Middle of Nowhere

It was cold, foggy and not without drizzle, yet we were glad to be up so early and by ourselves at this Trollveggen that I had heard so much about but never visited. It looked just like a sad, miserable vertical rock face, which is what it is. Then people decided to start climbing up it, or was that down it? And throw themselves off it armed only with a handkerchief.

Brave, mad people.

Anyway, we were sitting in the car with the heating turned on full blast when I saw my neighbour (鄰居 leun goi) from Pui O standing a few meters away, looking at leaves. One enormous rock face obscured by fog, a vast parking space in the middle of Nor-where, two cars, seven people. What are the chances three of those people are from Pui O?

My neighbour’s friend was also from Hong Kong, and she had driven down from Northern Sweden with her Swedish husband two day before to meet my neighbour in Stockholm after which they had immediately powered on to Norway.

I had only ever waved at this neighbour, Ms Chan (陳小姐 Chan Siu Jeh) when she was out jogging. Now we were forced to interact. But as long as it’s in wonderful Cantonese, I don’t really care. And what an excellent story it made.

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