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PAR CAR SUPERSTAR
A little background about Disco Bay, the village I live in:
It’s different from other villages in Hong Kong in that it was originally designed as a getaway resort. It eventually became a residential village instead, but the resort elements remained, such as a beach, a clubhouse and a golf course.
One other thing they borrowed from other large resorts: golf carts as private transportation. There are no proper cars allowed in the village, so if you need the convenience of a car to get around, yr only option is a golf cart.
Which brings us to this golf cart right here, which I spent last week driving:
It’s not mine. It belongs to some friends who went on holiday last week and needed someone to look after their two dogs while they were gone. They asked us and we said yes, and since their house is way over on the other side of the village, with no direct bus route from our flat, they kindly lent us the golf cart.
I’d never driven one before. Took about 30 seconds to master it. The only think that worried me was that HK uses the British road system, where the signs are somewhat different and everyone drives on the left side of the road. The signs are no problem (I am licensed to drive in Germany, where the signs are more or less similar apart from language). Driving on the left – never done it before.
It was easier than I thought.
And so the bride and I drove the hell out of that golf cart. Because hey, wouldn’t you?
Having lived in HK since the mid-90s, I’d forgotten how nice it is to just be able to get in a vehicle and GO without having to plan everything around public transport timetables.
But will I get one of my own? No. Why? For the same reason I didn’t have one in the first place: they’re too damn expensive. There are only 500 carts allowed in DB (a village of 15,000, incidentally), and due to import costs and license fees, they cost somewhere around HK$2 million (around $248,000 American).
And that’s second-hand. I could buy a 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 Valentino Balboni Coupe for that and still have enough left over for a weekend of debauchery in Cancun [NSFW].
So I’ll take the bus, thanks.
No wheels,
This is dF
It’s different from other villages in Hong Kong in that it was originally designed as a getaway resort. It eventually became a residential village instead, but the resort elements remained, such as a beach, a clubhouse and a golf course.
One other thing they borrowed from other large resorts: golf carts as private transportation. There are no proper cars allowed in the village, so if you need the convenience of a car to get around, yr only option is a golf cart.
Which brings us to this golf cart right here, which I spent last week driving:
It’s not mine. It belongs to some friends who went on holiday last week and needed someone to look after their two dogs while they were gone. They asked us and we said yes, and since their house is way over on the other side of the village, with no direct bus route from our flat, they kindly lent us the golf cart.
I’d never driven one before. Took about 30 seconds to master it. The only think that worried me was that HK uses the British road system, where the signs are somewhat different and everyone drives on the left side of the road. The signs are no problem (I am licensed to drive in Germany, where the signs are more or less similar apart from language). Driving on the left – never done it before.
It was easier than I thought.
And so the bride and I drove the hell out of that golf cart. Because hey, wouldn’t you?
Having lived in HK since the mid-90s, I’d forgotten how nice it is to just be able to get in a vehicle and GO without having to plan everything around public transport timetables.
But will I get one of my own? No. Why? For the same reason I didn’t have one in the first place: they’re too damn expensive. There are only 500 carts allowed in DB (a village of 15,000, incidentally), and due to import costs and license fees, they cost somewhere around HK$2 million (around $248,000 American).
And that’s second-hand. I could buy a 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 Valentino Balboni Coupe for that and still have enough left over for a weekend of debauchery in Cancun [NSFW].
So I’ll take the bus, thanks.
No wheels,
This is dF