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So, after the monster few days we had experienced, by the 6th of July there was only one way to describe ourselves. Absolutely buggered. We awoke late but still felt like we had been flattened by Mack Trucks. We had missed ‘regular’ breakfast options, so we decided to find a sandwich shop as described in our Lonely Planet Guide. Lonely Planet is only helpful to a point. This is past that point. After wandering helpless and hungry through Kowloon we found ourselves back where we started - originally - at the Ferry Terminal from Macau. Damn you Lonely Planet. So we [View Full Entry]

roundtheworld08 - Andrew & Tori | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 75 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=316112] | 2008-08-25 18:16:18

Blue! Its Blue!!
Ok, another reason we are never flying with jetBlue
Drew braves the wet to see the stars

When we last left our happy wanders, Andrew and Tori were farewelling Macau, a strange place full of contradictions and psychotic drivers and were looking abroad to Hong Kong, hoping it would be the jaw-dropping steamy metropolis that Lonely Planet describes. Andrew had nodded off to sleep, and Tori, tense with sea-sickness paranoia, distracted herself with hundreds of seemingly identical photographs of the many uninhabited islands between the two cities… Tin Hau, a popular goddess, and protector of seafarers in Hong Kong must have been out and about on Thursday July 3rd, because no [View Full Entry]

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Getting closer...
Pow! Right in the kisser! Eat your heart out Sydney (Hong Kong Island)
The Ferry Terminal on Kowloon side

By roundtheworld08
July 6th 2008

Chapter 1 Macau

 Asia » Macau » Macau
Our mode of Transport
Our mode of Transport
Gleaming in the morning sun, promising all good things.. and it was all good.
As we begin the tale of how we ended up here at this particular moment, let us first set the scene for ‘here’ and ‘the moment’. Currently Andrew and Tori are sitting in their hotel room ‘The Salisbury - YMCA of Hong Kong’ in Tsim Sha Tsui (part of Kowloon in Hong Kong) consuming the following products: • Pringles (light) in Original Flavour • Malteasers in Cappuccino flavour • Kit Kat in Black Flavour and • Maxim’s Supreme Butter Loaf which is a fairly standard bun, except for the intriguing dialogue printed on its pa [View Full Entry]

roundtheworld08 - Andrew & Tori | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 66 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=296045] | 2008-07-06 13:51:49

We are on our way
Hong Kong Airport Baggage Board
Waiting for the ferry