October is the perfect time to be in Hong Kong. There are about two weeks of joy - between 'hot and damp' and 'cold and damp'. Not that its the weather that keeps me here. Or the LA eighties retro smog for that matter. What makes Hong Kong special is just how nodal it is. Everything connects. Put simply, its easy to get from here to everywhere else. And more than that, its like one big social router. Whatever networks you may have started with, rapidly expand regionally the longer you spend here.

Of course, it helps that all the pieces that you need to get by just work. People speak English, the infrastructure is good, taxis are cheap and plentiful, the banking system is efficient, the Airport Express drops you from Central to the terminal in twenty minutes and there are even a handful of places where you can get a decent martini (or two). The latter being an absolute necessity - also on account of all of the above.