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Ahh… Thats the sound of the feeling when you get back from a good holiday..

Just returned to UK yesterday after a truly AMAZING time in Hong Kong!! OK, so yes I only went there 7 months ago and yes I had to endure a 12 hour flight but I had to go again coz I was so amazed last time. I can still say the same applies. It is an amazing place to go for sure! It has everything there.. Views, shopping, good weather (while I was there), funky style, good FOOD and I can’t possibly use all this page to go on and on about what it has all day but trust me, its better than Nottingham, UK.. (OK OK, where isn’t.. I know I know..)

This time round in HK, we went to a whole lot of new places. Our hotel was in a good location 5 minute walk from Mongkok station (Loads of shops and markets). The hotel staff were friendly and the place was really nice and clean although pretty small rooms. More than enough though considering we didn’t pay a lot! We had air conditioning which was obviously convenient since it was so so hot the entire time we were there, even when there was a little rain a couple days in the first week. Breakfast at the hotel was a bit random (when we got up in time), there was the ‘usual’ sausages, egg, toast, beans, coffee etc.. Then there was the option of noodles and samosas.. Some other things I wouldnt normally associate with breakfast as well, however here I am commenting on it but I was always there with my plate heaped with noodles and samosas anyway. I love em’ both!

When we arrived, we tried to do everything ourselves without asking for directions and help every 2 minutes.. The roads in Hong Kong aren’t too easy to follow though unless you know where you are headed.. We stopped to ask a lady for directions.. Now, we couldn’t speak a word on Cantonese past hello and thank you but her ‘directions’ consisted of hitting our map with the back of her hand and spitting Cantonese at us so fast that even if we could speak the language we wouldn’t understand what she was going on about. We stuck our hands in and took back our map thanking her for her ‘help’ and walked on. Eventually we navigated our way using the not so clear tourist map.

I had mentioned before on my friend’s blog (Anand), that I did not intend to buy a Nintendo DS Lite on this holiday .. So.. What did I do? Of course, I bought one.. Someone tell me why!? OK, so they aren’t as bad as I had thought and I found myself getting addicted to it whenever we were in the hotel! Things out there are so much cheaper than in the UK.. For example, eating out at a nice restaurant (by ‘nice’ I mean anything better than a fast food restaurant) would normally cost at least maybe £10 – £25 or so? Well, eating out in Hong Kong somewhere nice would cost around HK$120 which works out to be roughly £8.. Most of the places we ate at cost half that amount anyway, so you get the idea, its really cheap! Food there is so good as well, with lost of variety everywhere you go! mmmm! . Its a similar story with shopping in general too. Well, to be honest you only have to set foot out of the UK to experience that though. .

There was so much to do and see, we still didn’t get to do everything in the 2 weeks we were there.. (Maybe I need to go at least one more time ) . We traveled mainly on the MTR (The underground rail network) which was always clean, fast and busy! Almost every stop had a HUGE shopping centre above it! Good idea in principal since you don’t have to go outside to get home, but because of the size, the walk back to the MTR was sometimes a mission in itself. So much variety there it takes great control (or a lack of money) to not go crazy and buy something every time you step off the train.

The city never sleeps. I don’t know what time it was some of the nights we were out, but Boots (chemist, health and beauty shop) was still open.. So was the Nike shop, oh and the Adidas shop, also the 24hour McDonald’s (obviously)! Everything was still open! Do they not sleep?! Hmm .. But it was definitely convenient for us anyway! We had many walks down the Ladies Market (Not just for ladies haha) and a trip up the Victoria’s Peak!

I need to thank Vicky and Suet for meeting up with us and helping make this holiday GREAT!! Hope you guys enjoy the rest of your time out there and we’ll have to do this again some time! Be safe

Ugh, our coach journey from the airport was shocking! I always use this company when I am going to and from a London airport as it always seems most convenient, but will think again next time! The toilet on the coach must have flooded or had a leak or similar because the whole coach STANK of urine etc etc.. Won’t go into too much detail but imagine a 4 hour journey when that is all you can smell. Exactly.. Terrible!

I am still in process of sorting out all of the pictures from the holiday.. I am sure I will get round to it soon, so watch this space!

I found this so funny in all the MTR stations… The poor granddad in the picture has a bit of a tumble down the escalator!

See more cool pictures here

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