Ah Shan Hostel Hong Kong

(We are having some difficulty with regular internet access, so I'm writing this as I can - not editing to the extent I would like) We got through security at DFW okay (if confused) and found the gate and settled in for a long wait. I walked back to the bank of monitors to check our flight and a thrill shot through my body. We are on the way! American from DFW to LAX, full plane. Leslie brought a "tripnic" - chicken salad, potatoe (here's to you to DQ) salad, slaw, sandwich, nuts - all very n...

Couple of housekeeping things: First, I have no clue re how to reply to - Dooh! - I just figured it out. Hang loose for a minute. Second, this is hard for me to write and post. I'm going with getting it up however I can. Sorry for lack of rewriting/editing. The crowds, the amazing crowds. Yesterday, after some misadventures in the Chungking Mansions we headed back north to Mong Kok. We'd been on the go for a solid 12 hours and were very tired. The streets in Mong Kok were full beyond belief w...

Twenty pounds a night for a room in Hong Kong is cheap. When I told Cathy where I was staying, she told me on a number of occasions to be careful. On arrival at entrance to the building where the hostel was located, I was conviced I was in the wrong place, purely because of the dodgy looking people walking in and out of the buidling. It was only when I wandered in I saw the of the hostel on one of the mail boxes and I realised I had arrived. On getting to the 14 floor, things didn`t really im...

after a few days of visiting tourist landmarks, it's time to take a break & go S-H-O-P-P-I-N-G ! it's a time wifey has been waiting for as she won't be spending like this back home. Besides there's definitely more variety & choices & e fashion is always at least 1 season ahead. left e hostel a bit later after a good night's sleep from e disney trip. tried a different breakfast outlet today, though not as good as our favourite haunt, it does have its own speciality, hand made fish ...

Y-A-W-N !!! crawled out of bed ard 4+ in e morning with my body still in fatigue mode. have yet to recover from my ROM yesterday, Getting married is a happy but physically & mentally stressful affair, I'm sure u know wat I mean if u've been down that road before. Slept over at my in laws as e flight was set at 6.30 am & we had to check in earlier. wifey had woken up ard 3+, poor gal. It was pouring heavily when we headed downstairs so instead of heading to e main road to hail a cab, w...

Day 2.... when u're on holiday, u usually wake up pretty early & sleep rather late to maximize e time u spent there. except it can be rather hard to put in practice.... we woke up later than planned & it was around 10 before we headed out. A shot of another bldg opposite & along e way, I took a snapshot of the hong kong police. It's not exactly permitted to photograph them, so this is e best one I could manage. today, wifey was in a more relaxed mood compared to day 1. yesterday, ...

After yesterday's dilly dally & ending up only half day at Ocean Park, we learnt our lesson & decided to sacrifice our sleep a bit. Today, we go to wifey's dream world, Disneyland (but after e trip, we concluded that Ocean Park is better). e morning streets of hong kong is rather quiet & ppl dun seem to get to work so early, u only see a small handful of ppl & some taxis on e street. we headed back to our favourite breakfast outlet & tried some new stuff. see e fried dough...

today's destination? lantau island to see e great bronze buddha, po lin monastery & tai o fishing village. so set out early.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lant au back to tung chung station we headed. take no. 23 bus to head to po lin monastery cum big buddha ok? e Ngong Ping cable car ride is here as well, but we skipped it as it's nothing more than a super long ride up to see e bronze buddha. after almost an hour of bumpy up & down moutain rides (check out e curvy roads), we finally r...

today we were 2 little pigs waking up. packed & sorted our stuff e night before & slept a bit later. check out time at e hostel is by 12 pm so we did e necessary, deposited our luggage upstairs & recce around for e route to e airport. e lady at Ah Shan Hostel was most helpful in pointing out e route & it's a place we'll definitely choose to stay in again on our next visit. we did some last min shopping where we did our best to overstuff our already bursting luggage. I was also...

today's destination ? Macau ! But due a minor cock up (by yours truly again! sigh.), we ended up later than planned. today's breakfast is something new, famous pork chop instant noodles @ our fav tea restaurant in hk. eh, before u push yr eyebrows together to form a railway line, it's really nice ok. tender & succulent..... slurp.... sec, i gotta mop e floor. macau is also well know for its pork chop buns. so after breakfast we happily bounced to tsuen wan station only to realise we were ...