Day 4

We had a much needed long lie this morning as we had nothing planned for the morning and a late night yesterday! We had a late breakfast at the same place as yesterday as it’s convenient and good as right beside the hotel.

Sinéad wanted to go to the local mass at 11.30am so I went with her. The modem church was packed out even though we arrived early so we had to sit just outside. The mass was in English and there was a lot of Philippinos there. They are very health conscious, bow instead of shaking hands and dip the bread into wine instead of drinking it at communion. After mass we walked back to near the hotel as I had another fitting for my new suit. The tailors is owned by two brothers David and Michael who are really nice guys. They spoke with broken English and told me they had a lot less customers in the last few years due to brits leaving Hong Kong (a lot of their customers base was brits working in the financial district).

I had three of them take my measurements and I also got fitted for a shirt. I think as I’m leaving on Wednesday it’s all hands on deck to get it made! I’ll pick up my finished suit Tuesday evening. After, we walked to the Victoria harbour ferry port to cross into mainland china and the other side of Hong Kong. The ferry was easy to get and only 50 pence each!

It was a scorcher today with 31 degrees but 68% humidity! Definitely the hottest day so was tough to walk around in the open as you sweated so much as soon as you were in the sun! We went inside a big exhibition centre to get some of the air con! One thing about Hong Kong is because of the intense humidity they get the aircon is amazing everywhere! We got some food in a fancy department store that was good prices, we bought had really good sandwhiches presented emmaculatly and shared an almond croissant for dessert. They import everything for baking from France and everything was handmade onsite in an open kitchen. Everything here is like Japan and so well organised and clean. It’s amazing to me how far ahead this part of Asia is compared to the UK. Everything is more efficient, they are living in 2050!

After lunch because of it being the hottest part of the day we decided to do the Hong Kong museum of Art . It was free and really good with an exhibition on calligraphy and Snus bottles (amazingly intricate considering they were 500 years old). After we headed to another museum this time the Space Museum to walk around and get the great aircon! At 10 Hong Kong dollars (aka £1) it was a steal.

At around 6 we decided to go back out as thought it might have cooled down a bit. While still humid and uncomfortable it was ok enough to walk though Koloon park as it was shady there. After the park we located another roof top bar to have a cocktail (pricey but strong) and see this part of Hong Kong from above! After our drink and sunset Sinéad wanted to go see the temple street night market which we walked about 20 mins to get to. We stopped off on-route to try an egg bubble waffle which was nice! It’s amazing how humid it still was at night! Sinéad bought some bits and pieces at the market and we then went for a quick bite to eat before taking the metro back to our hotel. The food, while cheap, wasn’t great, I ordered chicken and it came stone cold (apparently that’s how it’s meant to be eaten!) luckily they heated it up for me!Baca selengkapnya