Hotel Belinda

... Despite this we had little room to stand with our bags (it's not as if we had a copious amount or anything......*cough* Belinda *cough*). A few more changes, a few more trains packed with commuters and a walk along the street brought us down to Hung Hom ...

... evening we met up with Josh, our tour leader and with the other 8 people who were going on the tour with us: Eddy, Xanthe, Belinda, David, Maria, Debbie, Danielle, and Rita. They ate with Josh but we went back to the bar we'd been to the previous evening ...

... you buy beer at a cafe at 7.30 where the patrons were both suited business men and local labourers? At 9.30 Belinda arrived at the hotel and after an emotional reunion we celebrated with a glass of champagne and then headed out wandering around our ...

... we decided to catch the monorail up to the IMAX for the 10pm session of Haunted Castle 3D. As expected this was a fun, corny movie that was a good a nice IMAX ice breaker for Belinda. The tram once again returned us to our lodging for the ...

... At the conclusion of the show we rushed down and out of the park and made our way as quickly as possible back to the hotel. Belinda freshened up as quickly as possible so that we could then leave and once again quickly make our way on foot through the ...

... instead of roaming, even though we were still in Switzerland! This was fun but it tired us out so when we got back to the hotel Belinda crashed and I worked on the blog, cleaning up the entries I had sent from the phone and starting on the Disneyland ...

... , on va dans un pauvre hotel avec Belinda, le Tinku, puis on va manger, bolognaise, bruschetta et un litre de vin blanc. Retour a l'hotel, Belinda me dit qu'elle prefere qu'on fasse notre voyage separement, ca m'arrange car je peux plus la voir, j'en veux ...

... of some very reasonable (in price and in flavour) "Chew And Spew" - that is to say, Asian cuisine. Once back at the hotel Tom finished off his latest blog entry, after which we headed down to queue up for the "Business Centre" (one computer in the lobby ...

... top speed of 140km. And so we headed to the Autobahn and straight down to Basel. We had again made a reservation at an Étap hotel, this one being just outside of Basel-Stadt, in the township of Pratteln (in Basel-Land). We didn't have much of the day ...

... squares, and ham and pork loin on bread. I had a couple of lemon fantas. Bill came to under 40E. Jamie went back to their hotel and Belinda and I walked up to Zaras. Tried on a suit I liked, but the pants were a little tight and 38" was the largest size ...

... . We both enjoyed this film, which I watched with the aid of an audio set providing the original English soundtrack while Belinda went with the German dubbing for the masses. I couldn't discuss this film without mentioning the stunning shots of Swiss ...

... no doubt soaking the carpet as we went. Belinda cleaned herself up first so she went to grab another cake shop dinner while I showered and got ready for bed. Belinda and I both used the hotel's free internet before getting to sleep, with only 1 day ...

... far from being considered busy. Our goals at the Fisherman's Wharf were to get some Patacas (local currency), lithium batteries for Belinda's [still] camera and a mini DV tape for my [video] camera. Unfortunately we were only able to get the local ...

... façade but is mainly an entirely new building, dubbed by the locals "the friendly alien" because of its modern shape and appearance. Belinda thinks it looks like a heart with too many valves, I just think it looks friggin' cool; I guess that's art for ...

... just 1 S-bahn stop away from the HB (Hauptbahnhof) in an area undergoing regeneration, now labeled the "Technopark". The hotel lived up to expectations, proving to Belinda that not all Etaps are as bad as the one we stayed at in Koln. Once settled in ...

... konditerei. Arvo tea consisted of vermicelli cake with a hazelnut hot chocolate for me and quiche with a vanilla macchiato for Belinda. The macchiato came with a "Lucerne Raindrop" - a kirsch-filled chocolate that even had an actual cherry in it. We ...

... until 10:45pm we used the day to continue enjoying Hong Kong. This began with a 1 hour long shop at the Esprit close to our hotel that Belinda had eyed off when we first arrived.  I must say that the service at the shop was good; staff took all of ...

... sent back to the room because carrying shopping around is for day trippers, pfft. I picked up a neat Space Mountain T-shirt while Belinda perused many a shop display and tossed and turned about getting a Mickey hand ring. We decided to avoid the Glow in ...

... a bike ride with Belinda, Tom, and Mike the first afternoon. The next morning we got up and went for a bike ride with Belinda and Tom. We told the hotel to have four bikes ready for us at 7 a.m., and they did, but one of them was sawed in half! We tried ...

... caught our eyes. The walk back to the station we changed up a bit by going through the main pedestrian mall so that Belinda could buy a new German mobile SIM since her Australian one has been deactivated. She ended up getting a German pre-paid package ...