On wednesday Grandma and I chugged across the water on the star ferry to Hong Kong island and from there took the MTR (tube) to Lantau island. We took the cable car up over the water and over the mountainside to get to Ngong Ping, the location of the biggest outdoor statue of a Buddha IN THE WORLD. I think Hong Kong definitely has size issu...

Arrived in Hong Kong and checked back into the Island Shangri-La on Hong Kong Island (if I get to come back, I think I will stay in Kowloon across Victoria Harbour next time just to shake things up). Upon arriving at the hotel, I was invited to join the Golden Circle club and get my room upgraded to the executive floor...which of course I took a...

We arrive.. at night.. and as we collect our items of luggage.. my brother sees an acquaintence whom he has forgotten the name of :P We then proceed in the hope of finding others we know.. later.. we offend our dad.. as captured here..it was because we walked out to the arrival gate and they were somewhere inside still.. but it was the best thin...

Just sitting here in an Internet cafe thinking about the all the craic thats been had. Lorcan and Catherines wedding was a great day and hong Kong is an amazing city. Photographs might give an idea o the craic that was had but thats not half o them coz for some reason my new memory card is not working. Brilliant crew o people that came out and t...

Caught evening plane to hong King to catch Virgin Flight hime

We arrived in Hong Kong after a 14 hour overnight flight, kind of brutal but they had 40 odd movies to choose from so that helped ease the pain. We were staying in a hotel in Kowloon, just off the main shopping road, Nathan Road. Hong Kong is a great city - the wait for the 2008 Olympics was evident with count down clocks and the olymp...

So we got to Chenszen and went through customs and got our passport stamped cause Hong Kong has to, even though it's part of China, cause it's what they call a Special Region or something (cause it's only a recent part of china too - it's the same with the former portuguese city of Macau - which we also went to and had to get our passport stampe...

Well we made it to China! The visa was the easiest one I've ever got, we used an agency cos its the best way to get a 90 day visa no questions asked. We dropped the passports and forms in at midday and it was reasy by 6pm that night! I couldn't believe the change in the weather in Hong Kong, a month ago it was freezing but now its really hot, al...

Good Morning! Yesterday was a very long day. Thanks to Jimm for dumping me off at Reagan. No thanks to United Airlines for making me eat salty beef when I requsted a veggie meal (I think it's always a safe bet during airtravel). The flights went great, but Chicago to Hong Kong was a killer despite standing up every 1.5 hours to bring the feeling...

Ok so we made it through the rough and tumble of bangkoks sleazy Kho San Road! survived the ever persistent tuktuk/pimps endless nagging!! And jumped on a cushy Cathay pacific 2 hour flight o good ole Hong of the Kong! Got to the airport and by god, it was the biggest damned airport i ever did see! We were panicing for a bit cause we only realis...