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Published: June 28th 2006
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Charlotte in Rain Coat
Little Miss Hello Kitty herself - aka Charlotte with her Hello Kitty raincoat. A quiet day in Hong Kong!
After our very late night it took us quite some time to surface this morning. The knock on the door by the Housekeeping Staff hurried our wakeup at about 9.00 am. Up until that time even the girls were safely tucked up in bed.
Once we got started however, we moved like lightening and were out and about at just after 10.00 am and found our way across the road to Delifrance. It has been interesting that there are no restaurants of the Chinese variety in this area open at 10 am. So after another delightful lunch we hit the shops with a vengeance. (Actually we have had a very shoppy kind of day!) We started at Wing On Plus - which appears to be the Chinese equivalent of Target. Both the girls and Mark bought items here. The girls each bought gorgeous raincoats - Charlottes has Miss Kitty on and Beth’s is a Minnie Mouse. I am attaching photos of the girls because they are so cute. They only cost $47 & $55 ($9 &$11 respectively!) and Mark bought some nice t-shirts. Again only about $170 ($35 give or take) they are
And Little Miss Minnie
And here is Beth in her Minnie Mouse raincoat. This was such a bargain at less than $AUD10! Don't you agree? both Beverley Hills Polo. Then we moved on to buy purses and belts (4 for $100 or $AUD20). 2 small Chinese suits for the girls at about $150 and a couple of other items. The most intriguing buy of the morning was a VCD of Spy Kids 2 (this was our let’s see if they work on the computer) and they did. This item cost us a massive $14 or less than $AUD3!!!!! What was that? Orders you say????
Then back to the hotel via taxi. A short rest and organize ourselves, upload the weblog and lo! And Behold! A typhoon warning has been put in place. This is only a level 1 and they expect it to swing into Southern China away from Hong Kong and that the weather should start to close in within the next 24 - 48 hours. Now we were planning to head to Disneyland on Thursday but felt it would be more prudent to visit tomorrow.
After dinner at the Hard Rock (yes I know still no Chinese but seeing so many of those unidentifiable food products and the smell and ….well I could go on, really!) we headed off to the
Glass Milk Bottles
Kowloon Dairy still uses glass milk bottles. Haven't seen these in years! And you even get a refund on the bottle. Temple Street Night Markets again. This time to shop, shop, shop. And so we did, that Mahjong set for $55 ($AUD11) Socks at 3 for $10 ($AUD2), Jeans for Mark $60 ($AUD12), shoes for the girls - 2 pairs $120 all up ($24 for both) and the girls each shopped too! A doll for Beth (Biggg size) $110 ($AUD22) and Charlotte bought a limited edition tin cased Yugioh set. $80 down from $109 (at the end $AUD16) - we saw the same item previously for $150 HKD.
At last (at about 10pm) we got back to the hotel in time to unpack unload and go to bed. See I said it was a quiet day =) On a final note, we get visited every day at least 3 to 4 times to make the room up, fill the ice bucket and by the floor manager to make sure we are happy. Got to be happy with the service.
Some interesting facts:
The taxi drivers in Hong Kong must be some of the worst drivers in the world and especially when it comes to map reading! They zoom up and play argie bargie with the trucks and buses and almost run over pedestrians to get to where they want. They also drive all over the countryside and mostly in the wrong direction and look amazed when you mention the street name which is quickly followed by “no read English” or “no no” with a shrug of the shoulders (one does wonder if it has anything to do with the $15 they originally getting not really amounting to much.
Hong Kong drivers LOVE to use their horns. Today while in the video shop there was a horn competition between cars. Apparently one car wanted to get through and another was in the way. The rest of the cars went out in sympathy. This went on for about 5 mins straight. Extremely loud - trust me =)
Marks Input
I must agree that the VCD (video compact disk) was the buy of the day. VCD’s are all over the place here and DVD’s are reasonably difficult to come across. There seems to be no region issues with the VCD and the price is dead cheap. We have been warned by some seasoned shoppers about the “new” release movies - that is you can get the Da Vinci Code here now complete with home photocopied cover. Apparently a number of tourists have gotten home to find the disks blank - For $20 HKD you too can buy a photocopy of a movie cover.
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Yeah right
Nicola - why would we want to buy a VCD when we can borrow yours!