A ride on the Star Ferry

I was awake again from 12:45 to 2:30. I don't know why I can't sleep through at the moment. I must have gone off back to sleep, though - the next thing I knew, it was 9:15! Somewhat later than planned. 😂. However, all the advice I've read was not to visit the popular tourist spots at the weekend anyway. So I'm saving those for later in the week, and today, after I'd had a spot of breakfast, I walked down to the Star Ferry terminal to catch the ferry to Central. It's a must-do thing when you're in Hong Kong.

I have to say that the signage was great. It was really simple to fathom out how to catch the ferry and where to catch it. Again, I could use my Octopus card. I paid a slightly higher price for my ticket so that I could go on the upper level of the boat, but it's not a lot of difference.

It was ridiculously busy, despite the fact that it was another cloudy day, but I managed to get a good seat at the front of the boat.

The Hong Kong Eye is on the waterfront on the other side, just like the London Eye is by the Thames. The difference is I don't know what you would see if you went on it, because at 60 meters tall, it's so much shorter than all of the surrounding buildings. So I'm not sure what benefit you would get by going on it 😀.

They're still developing the waterfront over here, so we were funnelled through a covered walkway decorated with explanations as to what they're doing. It's quite sterile. Halfway through the walkway there was a space-age café, which was completely deserted apart from the man behind the counter. It didn't look very appealing 😊.

Unsurprisingly, the walkway takes you straight into a huge, shiny shopping mall - very expensive with all the big names. A shopping mall is not normally a place I would go into anyway, wherever I am in the world, so I just walked through to get where I wanted to go, being careful not to trip over any of the robot cleaners that were all over every floor. Apparently they sweep, polish, and spray air freshener into the atmosphere. So, no need for human cleaners.Read more