After being abandoned my good friends, (sniff) I thought I'd better enjoy the one and only day that was scheduled in Hong Kong. The only problem being that without Carl to do the map reading, I was dependant only on my own poor map orientation skills... It can't be that hard I thought... sea to the left, town to the right, pritty big landmarks making it easy, for any normal person maybe. I still managed to get it wrong! To be fair, I did set off to find the most obscure little backstreet market among the syscrapers and Harvey Nicolas's. So off i went on my journey through the Stages of map reading frustration; confidence, doubt- trying subtley look at the map without looking like a lost tourist, then not caring and standing frowning beneath a
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