Xinyi City Hotel
Travel Blogs from Shenzhen
Final Days of My Adventure...
... Like I said, I don’t think I was quite feeling myself, however at this point I bought a couple of handbags, and some souvenirs. I didn’t really bother bargaining, but even so I still got most of them to halve their prices, which is crazy. I basically took the approach of offering a price I would be happy to pay, and either they took it or they didn’t. Most of the time they did, so I assume I was probably ripped off to an extent, but if I had ...
"I'm bringing sweaty back! Yeah!"
... HK island, eating in Hard Rock Cafe (and getting a free chocolate brownie sundae), watching the 'Symphony of lights' light show, wandering around the air-con shopping malls (Mam, they have Clarks and M&S here), watching Kung Fu in the park etc. Heading off to Disneyland HK tomorrow. Whoop whoop! Hopefully going to be picking up our Chinese visas on Tuesday and then headin over to mainland China to spend some ...
The 2012 Winters Beers N Noodles Adventures End
Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya,
Do you want to know what I reckon?
I reckon it feels like I'm sitting in Mc Donald’s in Melbourne.
I reckon it feels that way because there are just as many Chinese people in it.
I also reckon that it would have been nice to have ...
Elevated Reality; Surfing in Hong Kong
... walkways to the next meeting, a business lunch, or a purposeful stroll through one of the hundreds of upscale shopping malls. HK is still a major financial and international business center and you cannot sneeze without hitting an expat. The non-suit wearing public is easily much better dressed than their counterparts on mainland, China. Everyone makes an effort….. And where did the spitting, horn honking and disregard for rules go? We left ...
Hong Kong Halloween
... our dinner, we headed again to the South side of the peninsula, near the 'Avenue', where there was a raised platform where we could watch the Light Show. The Light Show is kind of famous, I had heard a lot about the Hong Kong city lights before we got there, and we were excited to see it. But after waiting for it to start at 8:00PM, and then sitting through some preliminaries, it just wasn't ...