Hong Kong Fooey
Quicker than the human eye we made the long flight to HK whilst watching a bunch of movies (Air NZ has a very neat on demand system these days). Blades of Glory was my fave this time around.
Anyway got to Hong Kong at 6 in the morning, jumped on the train and then got a cab to our very shiny hotel. They were very accommodating about us turning up at 8am and said they should be able to have a room ready for 10.
Off down the equivalent to Hollywood Boulevard, past the statue of Bruce Lee, stepped on Jakie Chan and straight up to some Indian bloke. He read my palm and said I would live to 83 make a bunch of money, spend a bunch of money and generally do well. Oh and i'm a lucky man. Apparently the $10 hong kong dollars I gave him made me a cheap skate, well he didn't read that in my palm then!
Wow Hong Kong is a hectic place, our hotel was an easy walk to the star ferry which we used a bunch. Went up to the peak, Stanley Market and whilst being hoofed out for wearing shorts did manage to make it up to the bar of Aqua.
Food there is an interesting mix of west meet east with no one quite knowing what goes where. So I'm sure I have my fair share of ground pork and goodness knows what else but it was all very tasty.
Not sure I could manage the place for much longer than a couple of days especially after being to so many quiet out of the way places but it is amazing. Kind of an Asian Vegas.
Viva Hong Kong.
And that was it holiday over, time to go home and face the jet lag.
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