The bus trip to Hong Kong was good - we had regular stops for the loo and to stretch, lunch was included at a restaurant in Shantou, and we met nice people to chat with (mostly Hong Kong-ers who could I speak in English with!). The Guangdong scenery we passed through was mostly steep hills coming down to a flat coastal plain full of rice field...

Victoria Peak is located on the Hong Kong island side of Victoria Harbor, and, at 1,286 feet, is the tallest hill, for lack of a better term, in Hong Kong. This is the view you always see on the Travel Channel when they talk about Hong Kong. It truly is amazing to look down and see how the city has managed to fit so much into so little. There is...

Leute, ich bin in Hong Kong angekommen!! Nachts noch schnell das Hostel gesucht und dann erstma ausm Staunen nimmer rausgekommen! Diese Atmosphaere!! Man kommt sich vor wie im Film "Blade Runner"!! Unglaublich!! Und vor allem: diese Preise! Fuer noch nichmal 3 Euro bin ich der Koenig bei McDonalds! Fruehstueck gibts fuer 50 Cent, die Fahrt mit d...

At 9am, we left Yuan's place and headed for Beijing airport concluding our short 2-week visit to China. The flight has to route through HK first before we can head back to Taiwan. It's quite a painful experience. If there were direct flight between China and Taiwan, we would have been able to make our way back home in around 3-4 hours inste...

It was just a tit nipply today. We went to Ngong Ping to go see the Po Lin Buddha, aka the huge sitting Buddha on a mountain top. James and I get back to our Canadian roots as we go head on with the weather which is a throw back to 'typical' UK weather. It's slightly misty, cool and overcast. We head over to the cable car terminal and make our w...

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 Mans...

a quickie weekend back in hong kong for michael's birthday.


and, of course, a night out in wanchai.


great to catch up with friends, do brunch at the fab island shangri-la and see how quickly the sophster and bella are growing.

Arriving in the big city On arrival of Hong Kong you can immediately see where the inspiration for Blade Runner came from. Its mad!! Shop fronts three storeys up as if you could just step in the front door - a 3-D high street. It is totally amazing. In the good old days back packers could only afford to stay in the concrete jungles of Kowloon bu...

After 3 more days Charles and I are at the end of our stay in Hong Kong, whilst Mum and Dad are almost at the middle of theirs. We began on Friday with a nice little breakfast at the Pacific Coffee Company a bit down Nathan Road from our hotel, towards Victoria Harbour. After our refreshment, we continued walking down until we reached the waterf...

Dear All Well I have come full circle (or more precisely full triangle) and have found my way back to Hong Kong. Traveling certainly seems to warp time around you; it seems quite some time ago I was in Manchester; but not that long ago for when I was in Hong Kong. Anyway I'll leave all that space and time to one Mr Hawking. My train journey from...