The VELA Hong Kong Causeway Bay
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Nine Dragons
... hand, staying in a hotel in the centre of Tsim Sha Tsui (TST) is brilliant. The energy and life here in incredible. Food is taken very seriously here and restaurants are full at all hours, and full of people chattering away. Different to London though is the family feel - even late in the evening, families are out with their young children and elderly grandparents having dinner and walking in the streets and taking the MTR. A dim sum breakfast in Mei ...
Cosy with the cuzzys
... card readers and fortune tellers - we spent a decent amount of time walking through it with more beers from 7/11 (love that) and then caught a cab back to the apartment.
On our last morning we spent some time with Joe and the kids at the play ground and starbucks before packing up, saying our goodbyes and heading back to the airport. Another occasion where we really didnt want to be moving on - you definitly get alot more comfortable when you are with people you ...
24 Hours in Hong Kong
... I sat by a large window and eagerly watched the landscape flash by. Between the second and third stops, the train plunged underground and I napped for the next hour, slowly and confusedly opening my heavy eyelids between each station when Cantonese instructions came over the sound system.
At the border, I used my seasoned skills from hours spent at People's Square to give hawkers the stink eye so they'd leave me alone as I searched for ...
For the Record
... century fishermen, in the 1960s it was home to over 30,000 but today only a few hundred Sui Seung Yan (people of the water) remain. We found that this is also a good spot for Kowloon picture taking! As Causeway Bay is the countries premier shopping area, it would have been rude to not wander around famous HK brands such as Jack Wills, Forever 21 and H&M, before crossing the Bay, well taking the MTR under the Bay, in search of the next World Record. Just a short walk from ...
Tragedy
... been struck by a high speed ferry travelling between Hong Kong and Kowloon. The High Speed ferry was a catamaran and as such had enough buoyancy to remain afloat, but the ferry sank quickly. Over a hundred people went into the dark water of Hong Kong Harbour. As we sat on the ferry out to Lantau, we looked down at the water and agreed that we wouldn’t want to be in it in the daylight, let alone at ...