L.O.V.E Hong Kong

It was brilliant in Hong Kong! We stayed for three days in this little hotel in Kowloon, in this tiny room which smelled continually of egg fried rice. The window was tiny too and boarded up, so not really helpful, but we had air con! So we always smelled egg fried rice and whatever else was on the menu.

The city itself is a bit mad and a bit hectic, but the shopping is great, stuff is so cheap and we managed to really find our way around very easily! Hooray! We went on an old style chinese junk for a cruise round the harbour and got into Tsing Tao beer. We also managed to eat very well at various street stalls and made friends with this chinese lady who worked in one of them. Got to know lots of different things you can eat, which happily crawl about seconds before you munch them and found out I hate toads.

They sell them for eating and you can buy them by the net - YUCK!!!!!!! They just sit there on top of each other, warts and all, and wobble their throats, looking gross. Everything else was fine, but those toads I couldn't handle. At one fish market, one of the men at the stall saw how much I hated them and then pretended to throw one at me - you can imagine the chipmunk noises I was making mixed with hysteria... not attractive, but they all pissed themselves laughing. :0)

It went by far to quickly... we also saw the lightshow in the harbour where different buildings light up to music which was nice. I also had my fortune told - I'm gonna have two kids, one boy and one girl. My health is good and so is my career. I should move house and should get married after I'm 30 as I'm stubborn. There you go.

In the picture where I'm posing with the trafalgar square reproduction lion, you will probably wonder why I haven't climbed it. Trust me I tried! They greased those nasty buggers so people who try it slip off and fall on their butts - those Chinese people don't mess around!

Other than that - hey, it was great! Off to Bangkok next and ready for new adventures.