Harbour Guest House Hong Kong

... the Airport Express was quite expensive, but it was very convenient to get to the city. To put it in another way, it is inconvenient to reach the city by bus and MTR. So Hong Konger who know the way by bus and MTR may think of Airport Express as a rip-off for tourists.

I didn't know where Kowloon Station was, so I was on the train up to Hong Kong, although my hostel was located in Kowloon. So I took an MTR to Tsim Sha Tsui at Central. MTR Tsim Sha ...

... br> Early next morning, we set off from our hotel to a place called "Wan Chai", which is traditionally HK's red light district. I'm sure however, that other above board business transactions also take place there. Wan Chai is also famous for its night life and restaurant cuisine.
The actual place we were to look for, was a building known as the "Great Smart Tower', to which we had been lead to believe , was located on a certain numbered ...

... further ahead "traffic jam - can't be for me". We have to build one more ramp and do some traffic directing but get through losing only 45 mins. It gives the local market goers with their pigs and hens and ducks in carrier bags something to look at anyway (me).

Mimi's old friend Katrina is in the Hong Kong hotel to greet us and so we go for a quick meal in a "coffee house" next door. Noodles and stuff. The hotel at first glance is not very convenient but in ...

... the charge up his stairs when the Chinese ahead of me got baffled by all the branches. It was just the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse with Tarzan characters, but it was pretty, and I had an informative chat with the gate-opening “Cast Member” back at the raft dock. By the by, Hong Kong Disneyland is so tiny that the raft to Tarzan’s Treehouse and Tarzan’s Treehouse itself are counted as separate “attractions”. And besides the new Demon Jungle ...

... blasting off into the sky and others lit up with pretty patterns along their sides.

Iain and Sarah were staying with Sarah's cousin who turned out to be from Kelso. It was very peculiar hearing the Borders accent half way across the world. He's got a job teaching Rugby in the most expensive private school in the world. They took us out to this very elaborate Chinese restaurant where you have to pre-order your roast duck, or strange chicken wrapped in ...

Hong Kong is London!

Your stand on the left on escalators, you read the Metro on the tube and a familiar lady tells you to mind the gap! What on earth did i fly here for??

Soho is the same too, bars, dodgy parlours and trendy british folk adorn the streets drinking over priced lager and wine, pretending to be more important than they actually are. Kowloon is mildly more asian. The night market is a seething medley of disorganised chaos ...

... friend Brulio I turned around and headed off to the Philippines instead. Which means yet ...

... apparent on the plane when the meals came out. I haven't ordered kosher or even vegetarian so I'm gonna be eating a lot of rice and bread on plane journies. I arrived in Hong Kong just after 8am, 8 hours ahead of UK time. I was relieved to see my bag come through and after I picked it up, I was handed a tourist brochure by a nice lady. This became my bible over the following days because I had done little to no preparation for what to do in Hong Kong. I got the bus to Kowloon when ...

... years.  They were all Hong Kong or Mainland people now living and working in Hong Kong.  They are ALL in finance.  Well, except for two.  They're lawyers.  Hong Kong has a lot in common with Manhattan.  All the same, it was a great dinner and we went to a classy rooftop bar afterwards.  I love rooftop bars in these giant Chinese cities.  A great feeling washes over me when I relax with a drink watching the city unfold below me.  

... now quick shower and change to go back out to see another cousin for a meal.... A couple of messages... Thanks to all for the congrats messages, really mean a lot when we are so far away! I am slightly confused by all the Oomper Lumper talk...have I missed something? Kev and Vic...have a great time away, hope your dad's place meets Kev's needs (hehe) Adam ...