Blogs from Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, Asia

After taking the metro to the border station in Shenzhen we eventually managed to figure out where the two immigration posts were (guess what, they were in a shopping centre!). We arrived in Hong Kong by train to torrential downpours, thunder, flooded streets, the chaos of bad weather traffic and my raincoat was way at the bottom of my waterproof covered backpack! You can imagine the happiness on my face as we stood trying to 1. Figure out where our hotel was from the metro station 2. Deciding that it was too difficult to figure out, we would take a taxi, to be blanked by lots of them in the wettest rain ever!! So after the rain calmed a bit we walked out of our wee shelter near a 711 shop and eventually found a taxi.By ... read more

The second day of my trip began with an early (7:30 am) departure from the posh lobby of the Excelsior hotel – an upscale accommodation that's a stone's throw from Victoria Park. I did not actually stay at the hotel, which was a designated pick-up point for my tour company, so I considered an expensive cup of coffee, purchased from the polished in-house cafe, to be my “lobby pass.” I held the cup a bit higher, with a toast-like gesture, whenever the watchful eyes of the doorman came my way. The tour guide was a twenty-something Hong Konger who was professional, but not particularly enthusiastic in his delivery of well-rehearsed commentary at select spots on our route. The tour group consisted largely of staid middle-aged couples from Europe and North America, so the day's excitement came ... read more

Today we slept in and woke up at 2:30pm. Today was our last day in Hong Kong. We called room service and ordered rice with curry chicken each. It cost $13 ($106.80 in HKD). When we finished eating, we got ready, brushed our teeth, got dressed and then did our makeup. We decided that we would not need to go anywhere because this was our last day. We watched movies like Glee season 1,2 and 3, South Park season 1 to 15, Big Bang Theory (all of the series) and we watched Friends (all the series) all day until 5:15pm. After we finished we went to go for a shower and then we packed all of our stuff including the things that we bought. Then we went in the car and drove to the owners address. ... read more

So today we woke up at 9:30am. When we woke up we were too lazy to do anything for half an hour so we just talked to each other, we haven't even gotten out of our beds yet. Half an hour later we decided to get dressed, we got ready and put on our make-up. When we were finished we talked about where we would go. In the middle of talking the workers came in and gave us breakfast. We ate it all, it tasted nice. When we were finished eating we thought about it more; where would we go today? Then we got a brilliant idea, we would be going to the Museum of Art and then later we would go to the Happy Valley Sports Ground to play tennis for a bit. We got ... read more

It was 11:50am when we both woke up, guess we slept in, we even missed our free breakfast. Shania and I got ready; we brushed our teeth and got dressed. Since we weren't hungry yet, I thought of an idea; to drive our new car that we hired for a test run. Shania thought that we should go to one of the tourist attractions, it took us a while to think of one but we finally thought of one, the Wan Chai markets, since we both absolutely love shopping. The Wan Chai market is only a 7 minute drive from the hotel. Shania started the car and drove their, when we reached our destination, we parked our car and got out of it. The Wan Chai market was not very big compared to the other buildings ... read more