Nan Hai Hotel Shenzhen

... would be cheated back into the Stone Age, and just as I had picked myself up and dusted the prehistoric dirt off, I would probably be cheated right back to a few nanoseconds after the Big Bang for good measure. Despite trying to rationalise it fairly as there always being 'a few bad apples'; a niggling part of me wondered how many bad apples would there be if there were 1.3 billion of them in the barrel to start with? This, as well ...

So.. if you didn't already know, Ben and I are off travelling this coming July for four months..
We will leave the shores of Hong Kong for an adventure across China, taking in the south west provinces and Tibet before making our way up the Silk Road into Central Asia, through Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. This should take us two months. We will then head west, firstly enjoying some respite from our dusty ...

... myself who goes to the top of a mountain to go shopping? Then I realized that my mind’s image of the mountaintops with a few lonely hikers turned out to be wildly off the mark.

We decided to have dinner at Café Deco, one of the many restaurants with views from the top of the peak. As I looked out the window I could see a dark shadow of the Peak Tower’s wok shaped cantilever overhead. Perhaps the ...

... side the city it was Really breath taking and Beautiful! Went there by cable care, a little Scary but What a Awesome Awesome Idea!!! I loved it!!! It was Such a incredible day. The monastery there is just indescribable went there on a Sunday so there Were loads of locals, saying there Prayers and asking for their blessings! went for a walk up in the National Park and the Wisdom Path was really Touching, Way up in the Hill in between ...

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If you turned right, towards Jordan and the Jade Market: Walk along Nathan Road pass the historic buildings of St. Andrew's Church and The Former Kowloon British School (on 136 and 138 Nathan Road). Built in the early 1900s, those impressive structures are built of red bricks and feature fine Victorian and Gothic architectural styles ...

... enter it. Worst Extra Trip... bamboo rafting Yangshuo, even more duller than a Daniel O'Donnell concert. Best Hotel Shower.... The Bridal Tea House, Kowloon, now that is what I am talking about, hot and fast. Best Hotel WC.... Crystal Business Hotel, Xi'an, even though it has a see through wall.. Best Hotel Room.... Crystal Business Hotel but no doubt the Outside Inn Chaolong in the summer. Best Meal..... Grand Mothers, Shanghai. Best outside WC ...

... to music and each night they explain the different buildings in a different language. There were more heights to be dealt with at Ocean Park, which has a series of escalators taking you up to the rides at the top of the hill. They LOVE escalators here, they're everywhere, they even run through parts of the city! Ocean Park has a couple of great little rooms full of jellyfish lit by UV surrounded by mirrors, its great fun watching everyone bump into the walls ...

... saw the star-studded sky, I spotted a few shooting stars. Not hard to guess what I wished for. Wow! How did I get here? That's another story I guess but I'm glad I'm here, that I decided to push ahead and do this. Here's to me! Cheers! :-) This wine just keeps getting better! I'm at the lounge in a rainy, gusty Hong Kong now. On to Kuala Lumpur in 15 minutes. Cheers, Keith

... Hong Kong in 2005, it was nice to be semi-familiar with the place... arriving at a little past 10am, we had until 7 that night to look around town before boarding our 12-hour overnight sleeper bus to Yangshuo. So we headed off into the helter-skelter surroundings, trying to find our way to the shopping district we had visited 3 years ago. I should point out that it was swelteringly humid... not hot. There was virtually total cloud cover but the ...

... because the line between work and play is far less clear, and maybe I see the line in a different place to others. It's being made increasingly obvious to me that I'm expected to be available 24 hours a day. This is never explicit, but comments, activities and organisation (or lack of) make your regular working life more awkward and uncomfortable if you're not available at the drop of a hat. There are expectations and ...