Before catching the redeye back to Blighty last night, your humble correspondent had supper in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel’s Chinnery Bar. For those of you that are unfamilier with this institution

The Chinnery Bar was originally opened as a Gentleman's club in 1963 and was not opened to women until 1990. It serves traditional colonial cuisine and whiskey.

With a write up like that, you can understand why it is a mandatory stop on any visit to Hong Kong. Tonight, by way of contrast, I shall be staying somewhere in (groan) Leeds. If I were to be uncharacteristically charitable, I would say that such contrasts help me keep a sense of perspective. But I am feeling jet lagged & very very uncharitable. Therefore stuff contrast, I’d much rather still be in the Mando tonight