And so, waving our little red passports, we set off once more to escape the winter blues... But we didn't check the weather. Who would check the weather before heading off on holiday? Tsk, what a preposterous notion. Why check the weather before heading to an enourmous landmass in the middle of winter...? It all started off swimmingly and Hong Kong was lovely and warm. We caught up with Rob and Charlotte, our friends who have recently moved there, and before you could say 'Factor 30', we were on a beach enjoying the sun and tossing a ball about in the sea with all the smugness of some very smug people indeed. We drank too much, we pranced about in shorts and flip flops and acted like winter was but a fictitious flicker in the mind's
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