Lunch and a bus ride to Stanley

After the walk, I took the tram back down. I was hungry by now, so I went in search of lunch. In the Central District, just off a main street, I found a restaurant packed with locals. No tourists in sight. That's a bit of me 😀. So I went in. As is the norm, I was shown to a table where there was already a gentleman sitting eating. It looked like he'd got beef in black bean sauce with green and red peppers. It looked very good and I couldn't see it on the menu. So I asked the waiting staff if I could have what he was having. It turned out that the green peppers were not green peppers. They were bitter melon. And it really was bitter! It's probably an acquired taste. I ate some of it, but not all. The rest of the dish was delicious! It was served with rice and a choice of either a broth, tea or coffee. I asked for coffee, not thinking that it would come with milk, and it did. So as I usually drink my coffee black, that wasn't the best part of the meal. But anyway, the food was very good 😀.

By now I had done enough walking for a while. I'd read about the suburb of Stanley, a great place for a seaside stroll. So I decided to take the bus there. It takes about an hour - an opportunity just to rest my legs. I was first in the queue for the next number six bus to Stanley, so I was able to sit upstairs on the double-decker with great views from the front seat. 

As we went along, we drove through clearly expensive seaside suburbs, past golf clubs, country clubs, jockey clubs. At one point a number of teenagers got on the bus. They were clearly Americans and Russians, presumably with very rich parents. A very affluent area. 

We drove through Repulse Bay with its beautiful white sandy beaches to get to Stanley. I have to say that that coastal road along there reminded me very much of Cape Town, South Africa, where we took the hop-on hop-off bus and drove through the coastal suburbs. The apartment blocks, the gated communities, the fabulous views of the sea - they all reminded me very much of that Cape Town coastal road.Read more