Tony Parsons

Diary – 30 June 2007

They have moved the Star Ferry. How could they move the Star Ferry?

Hong Kong

They have moved the Star Ferry. How could they move the Star Ferry? The view of the harbour from my room at the Ritz-Carlton should be one of the great sights of Asia. But it is a building site of land being messily reclaimed and another corner of the ‘perfumed’ harbour getting paved over.

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