Hot as Honkers

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Well, the Hong Kong leg of the trip is done and dusted. Off to London tomorrow. Honkers has been kind to us. It's been hot but not too oppressively so.

Hong Kong in a word was...HECTIC! It's intense. The city is jammed with people. I guess this impression is borne of the fact that we pretty much didn't leave downtown HK. The one day we did venture out of the city to the south of Hong Kong island, we drove through lush tropical rainforest, which was really cool. That was the day we went to the American Club, of which one of my former bosses (John) who is living in HK, is a member. He and his wife Alison were fantastic. We spent a fair amount of time with them enjoying the fineries of HK. The rest of the time was 100% shopping. We're both now finely tuned haggling machines.

So if you expect a colourful description of the sights of HK, you ain't gettin' one, because we didn't see any. Yes, that's right, not one goddamn tourist sight. I can honestly say that this is the first OS destination I've been to where I've done ZERO sightseeing. Fleur's bag is of course at capacity now, 4 days into a 5 week trip, despite my sobering words, "Don't forget you've got another 5 weeks to shop". Obviously those words fell on deaf ears.

We went out one night to an area (or street?) known as Lan Kwai Fong near Central. It's a strip of bars that was just going off. It felt a little like Bourbon Street in New Orleans. People hanging out on the street just having a bloody good time. Fleur found heaven in a bar called 'Agave', which of course had a menu replete with about 100 different Tequila cocktails. And yes, we got pissy that night. Made for a nice hangover the next day.

Off to London in the morning via a 14 hour flight. Nice. Looking forward to it. AAARRGGHHHH!!!

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Photos

Elvis Lives!
Found Elvis in Lan Kwai Fong

At Insomnia
One too many Tequila cocktails by this point!

John & Alison
Our fabulous hosts in Honkers

View from Hotel
Looking over HK from our hotel

The Shopping King
Rizzo in power shopping mode in Mong Kok.

Fleur & Matthew
John and Alison's son, Matthew hamming it up with Fleur.

Comments

[Hayley]

Your on your way
Looks like your off to a good bloody start, keep the emails and pics rolling guys, loving being up to date Lots of love haylsxxx

[wolfman]

Tequila goooood
Keep up the good work guys. Maybe Fleur shoulda bought some more bags in HK?....problem solved! Enjoy London, Wolfie

[Chloe]

Woo Hoo!
Sounds like you're having a bloody fabulous time...100 tequilla cocktails - my god, I would have been in heaven! Say hello to my homeland for me... Love Chloe. xo

[Selina Smyth]

THANKS
Hey thanks for the update keep sending it is a nice change to the day then work emails.....Glad to see you are having fun and keep up the shopping ;-) Selina x

[FiFi]

Bag Lady
hey u2 - thanx for update - sounds fab - i can only imagine the fleury "bag lady" issue intensifiying - u are gonna be way over by week 5 missy - wait til ya see the shopping in london !! have fun and stay safe x

[Rosemary]

HOng kong....
Thanks for the info and pics, Love Mum

[Steve McHarg]

Where's the cat?
Hi Guys, Great to hear that all is going well, though I am somewhat surprised that Rizzo went mad shopping in Hong Kong....NOT! Anyway, I don't mean to alarm you, but can you send me the name and number of the person feeding the cat's from Monday? I just want to check that all is OK. Steve

[Vesna]

cao Stevo!
Dragi brate! Long time no seen, drago mi je da cujem od tebe :). Nadam se da je sa tobom i devojkom sve super. May the force be with you i da se uskoro cujemo, sis Vesna