We land at 2pm HK time – with the flight lasting about 10hrs 50mins – the sun is shining and it’s a nice comfortable temp of 18 degrees sweeeeeeet!! Bye bye crappy UK weather, Hello Sunshine!!! We get the MTR into Hong Kong and then another one onto Tsim Sha Tsui (?) where we get to our accommodation – Parkgate Hostel in ChungKing Mansions. This place is heaving and all full of crazy annoying touts with this crap chat: “Tailored suit sir, DVD, good fake watch?” or “ I take you to nice guesthouse. Where you want to stay? Follow me!” Joy. We rock up to the 15th floor and meet our hostel owner. She seems lovely and friendly so all good. We open our door to the room and its pretty darn basic! But at least it’s clean. The bathroom is a hoot – we have to shower head so it’s kinda like a metal hose hanging down – wahaha! Two single beds – mattresses are a tad hard and that’s about it!
I’m feeling skanky from the flight so hit the shower. Half an hour later we hear Aaron’s hearty laugh – you canny miss it – and Sutty has arrived!!! Aaron’s flatmate is stopping over in HK for a few nights on his way back from Oz to the UK – super timing. We get ready and meet them in the Irish pub next door – too handy!!! Bless Sutty, who has been researching the joint – mainly of Irish pubs – good skills! Unfortunately, it’s like £6 a pint or more in these places so we have to rely on happy hour – damn the exchange rate!
We head to the harbour for 8pm to see the free light n laser show – along the way we have dinner….at good ol Maccie D’s…..its £2 for a meal! Canny believe it!!! Light show is well impressive – even though we saw it last year – and we head to another bar!!! We stumble into a random bar – we’re the only Westerners in there with what looks like the fecking Triads at the bar – hmmmm…..dodgy!!! But we’re rescued….it’s a karaoke bar – hahaha! Aaron and Sutty get up and sing ‘Fly me to the moon’ - what a hoot! The locals LOVED it!! Probably helped that Aaron was wearing his England top and cowboy hat – mentalist.
Boy and I are knackered so get to our beds for 10ish.
I’m feeling skanky from the flight so hit the shower. Half an hour later we hear Aaron’s hearty laugh – you canny miss it – and Sutty has arrived!!! Aaron’s flatmate is stopping over in HK for a few nights on his way back from Oz to the UK – super timing. We get ready and meet them in the Irish pub next door – too handy!!! Bless Sutty, who has been researching the joint – mainly of Irish pubs – good skills! Unfortunately, it’s like £6 a pint or more in these places so we have to rely on happy hour – damn the exchange rate!
We head to the harbour for 8pm to see the free light n laser show – along the way we have dinner….at good ol Maccie D’s…..its £2 for a meal! Canny believe it!!! Light show is well impressive – even though we saw it last year – and we head to another bar!!! We stumble into a random bar – we’re the only Westerners in there with what looks like the fecking Triads at the bar – hmmmm…..dodgy!!! But we’re rescued….it’s a karaoke bar – hahaha! Aaron and Sutty get up and sing ‘Fly me to the moon’ - what a hoot! The locals LOVED it!! Probably helped that Aaron was wearing his England top and cowboy hat – mentalist.
Boy and I are knackered so get to our beds for 10ish.
Hayley
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ChungKing Mansions sounds like it should at least have a decent shower!
Didn't you put on the cowboy hat, Lady, and sing a little Britney?!?
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