Tuesday, November 18, 2003
OK, here's Hong Kong in a medium-sized nutshell (I'm posting it incomplete, and then I'll fill in more later):
Wednesday (29th October) - after our 5 hour bus trip to Sapporo, leaving home at 6.45am, and then train to the airport and 5 hour flight, we arrived in HK around 9pm, the flight was a little early. Our bag was the first on the carousel, so we headed off to the airport express, changing money in an automatic exchange machine (I've always wondered when they'd get round to using them!) on the way. We found our way easily to the subway, and then the hotel. Got an upgrade to a suite room on the 31st floor (well, not really 31st as there was no floor 4, 7 or 13 (to leave out various unlucky numbers)!), not a lot smaller than our apartment here! We went out briefly to the local supermarket for a few snacks, and then slept...
Thursday - room service breakfast, just like in the movies. Then we went out and headed for the Peak - the famous hill overlooking the city, with a really steep funicular railway up to it. We walked around up there for quite a while, saw some incredibly expensive looking property. Then we went back to the hotel briefly and ordered pizza.
Shopping.
Friday - Halloween! Star Ferry. Kowloon. More shopping.
Saturday - our last day. Ferry again. More shopping.
Sunday - left the hotel around 7am, had a pretty uneventful journey back to Kitami.
Wednesday (29th October) - after our 5 hour bus trip to Sapporo, leaving home at 6.45am, and then train to the airport and 5 hour flight, we arrived in HK around 9pm, the flight was a little early. Our bag was the first on the carousel, so we headed off to the airport express, changing money in an automatic exchange machine (I've always wondered when they'd get round to using them!) on the way. We found our way easily to the subway, and then the hotel. Got an upgrade to a suite room on the 31st floor (well, not really 31st as there was no floor 4, 7 or 13 (to leave out various unlucky numbers)!), not a lot smaller than our apartment here! We went out briefly to the local supermarket for a few snacks, and then slept...
Thursday - room service breakfast, just like in the movies. Then we went out and headed for the Peak - the famous hill overlooking the city, with a really steep funicular railway up to it. We walked around up there for quite a while, saw some incredibly expensive looking property. Then we went back to the hotel briefly and ordered pizza.
Shopping.
Friday - Halloween! Star Ferry. Kowloon. More shopping.
Saturday - our last day. Ferry again. More shopping.
Sunday - left the hotel around 7am, had a pretty uneventful journey back to Kitami.
# posted by Phil T : 6:13 pm
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