Welcome to our European trip, August 2009

Hongkong

Hong Kong Harbour

We arrived, Friday evening, safely in Hong Kong after an uneventful flight on Virgin Atlantic.


Saturday morning started with a walking tour around old Chinese streets - the Ginseng and Birdsnest Street, Herbal Medicine Street and Antique Street. Even in a modern city like Hong Kong, the drying happens on footpaths and roads. By lunch time we were hot and dripping so we headed off up the escalators to Soho to a chinese tea house for wontons, fishballs in rice, noodle soup and egg tarts, airconditioning and 44 litres of water and chinese tea. Then it was down hill through markets of wilting vegetables, fish and meat and fancy shopping malls to the pier. From here we took a relaxing Star Ferry harbour tour - super great if you want to know about high rise buildings, corporations and the amenities of five star hotels. Back at our very comfortable City Gate Novotel Hotel, we took advantage of their delicious buffet diner.

Dried fish.

Today, Sunday, we are going mall crawling at outlet mall attached to the hotel and then to a traditional fishing village call Tai O on Lantau Island, before our late night flight to London.