Another great day. Only bad part is that Kathy is starting to get my cold! I'm starting to feel better however. Took pictures of lots of great things, but can't upload from this computer it seems. Today we went to the other side of the Victoria Harbor. Took the "Star Ferry" over. There were a couple of large cruise ships that had come into Hong ...

Hi all, Arrived in Hongkong, had the best ever flight over here, we were upgraded to Business class!!!!! Talk about travel in style!! we made the most of the free drinks!! It was a fantastic flight and we really enjoyed ourselves. Then we hit Hongkong!!! It has the biggest tallest skyscrapers you ever have seen, you feel tiny because the whole c...

Woke up this morning on the train to discover that we were going in the opposite direction.... no idea when we changed but hey we can at least rest assured that it'll get us there! Got a little bit worrying at one point when the train made some sort of announcement as we approached GuangZhou, the train slowed down & sat there.... thankfully ...

Well, well We had a 3+  hour lay over in Hong Kong and decided to go sight seeing. we took the teleferic (sp?) up to the BIG BUDDA. whata spectacular  view!. We just made the plane from Hon Kong to Vancouver and guess what my cousin Bernard and Paulette were on the same flight. They were returning from a trip to China!&n...

Ok everybody, I did it. I updated the blogs. Sorry it took me so long, but it was not for lack of trying. The first time I tried to do it, my computers wireless was not working. Then I tried to go to the internet café but my flashdrive wasn't working. Then I tried borrowing my friends laptop to do it on there, but the internet was so slow on the...

Nur ein kurzer Eintrag heute, habe mir Kowloon, HK und einen Teil der Northern Territiories angesehen. Hong Kong ist einfach ein Knaller, allerdings braucht man schon jede Menge Kohle, wenn man sich hier wohlfuehlen will. Andernfalls lebt man nicht wie der Kaiser von China sondern wie der Arsch von Worms und stirbt nach 10 Jahren an Lungenkrebs,...

We left Yangtsoa at 7:30 a.m. yesterday to take a bus to a nearby town where we caught a flight to Shenzen, which is a sister city to Hong Kong. Apparently it is much cheaper to fly there than it is to fly to Hong Kong as it is a domestic flight rather than international. We knew we had to cross the border and then catch transportation to Hong K...

Day 223 Mon 19th June 2006 Doing Hong Kong in one day! Well, I had caught up on my sleep last night and the lack of food yesterday meant I was up early with an empty stomach! I was up and out by 8.30am. I went over the road to a bakery for breakfast before heading over to the Internet place around the corner. I was in there for about an hour and...

The last day in Yangshuo was predictably started with a fried breakfast (about midday after checking out) as the night before turned out to be quite a heavy one - was out to about half three before passing out (while a couple of the others played cards in Kate and my room). I must admit that my repertoire of card games has increased significantl...

The last few days had been spent out and about around Hong Kong. The first evening i took a tram up to Victoria peak. The tram system that takes you to the stop has been running since 1885, and was comforting to know once riding to the top that there has never had any incidents in the years it has run. Once at the summit i was rewarded with some...