Blogs from Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, Asia - page 4

We arrived in Hue late in the afternoon. We had lower berth, ‘soft sleeper’ tickets that evening on the overnight train from Hue to Ninh Binh - a city about an hour south of Hanoi. We had originally intended to spend three days exploring Hue - the Imperial capital of Vietnam - however we changed our mind at the last minute and spent the three days on the backs of motorcycles along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. So, here we were zooming through the streets for a fleeting visit on the way to the train station. The train gods were smiling on us as we had no upper berth-mates - the cabin to ourselves for the twelve hour journey and the cabin was actually clean. We read our books and enjoyed some beer and chips as ... read more

So today, we woke up at 1:00 realising that today was my second last day or this trip. We went and called room service because we missed our breakfast. We ordered 2 boxes of chicken supreme pizza each. It costs $12 ($98.65 in HKD), we paid our money and spent 2 hours eating and talking. When we finished we decided that we should go to the shops and buy all the things that we wanted. We got ready, brushed our teeth, and got dressed. We decided that we would go to the busiest shopping mall in Hong Kong; Hong Kong Times Square. This shopping mall was inspired by the Times Square in New York. When we went there, Shania and I were surprised at how many people there were and how busy it was. The Time ... read more

We woke up at 10:00am today, and we were starving for some food! It was like we didn't have any food for a week and we were stranded in a desert. The workers came in and gave us our breakfast, It was toast with 5 small hash browns and a cup of orange juice. We ate it all in 6 minutes and we were still hungry so we called room service. We ordered pepperoni pizza. The price was $6 ($49.30 in HKD) and I volunteered to pay for it because we only bought one. The pizza had 8 slices but was very big. It tasted really nice, it was very fresh. It tasted better than domino’s pizza, and in domino’s pizza the pizza is like the best! After we ate everything and was really full we ... read more

We woke up at 6:30am the next day. 30 minutes later one of the workers came in and gave us our breakfast. It was fried eggs with a sandwich, 2 hash browns and bacon. We thanked him, and he went out. After we finished eating we both decided that we should not go anywhere for the next 2 days. So today Shania and I decided that we should go to the beauty salon. It took us 30 minutes trying to find the beauty salon that the hotel provided, we had to ask a random stranger to know the way and when he pointed it out to us, we thanked him and went the way he told us to go. We finally reached the beauty salon, they even do massages. When we went in, we told ... read more

So, today was a bad day for us, like really bad, the holidays were getting better. We have a flu and it was all the swimming pool's fault, at least I think it was, we shouldn't have stayed for 2 hours in the freezing pool. We slept in like real late, even later than the other times we slept in. It was 3:00pm. I rolled on my bed to ask Shania if she wanted to eat anything, she did a little cough, which I think meant no. We were seriously too tired to care about food anymore and we were just too sick to eat breakfast, I mean lunch. We stayed in the hotel all day demanding the workers to get some latest magazines for us to read so then we don't have to move around ... read more