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Asia, part I: Hong Kong

Richard Rosss
2006-04-03 13:33:27

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My first nite I wandered round and grabbed some food and also checked out the scenery.

Yesterday, I wandered round Kowloon - didn't really do much but find a couple of net places and read the paper. There is nothing to see here. I spoke to a girl in my room and she was even more bored than me, she is taking a job today as a movie extra. Yesterday morning the whole Mirador Mansions were swarming with cops - I was asked for my papers, I only had my ozzie ID, so I claimed I was an ozzie (i couldn't be bugged to walk upstairs). People stare at me in the street as I have bushy blonde hair, its quite funny, I stare back and if they ask me where I am from, Sweden is my response. The toliets here are interesting as well - long drops!

Today, I went up Victoria peak and had some gr8 views of the city. Wandered around the island for a while checking out the mkts - the meat and fish were yuch. They keep the fish in tanks, bring them out after the cutomer selects them bash them on the head! Just been to a swanky restaurant and for $30 I had a western typr beef noodle dog thing, nice though! Today, being the 25th is my 1yr ann of leaving home...how things have changed!

Off to Macau in the morning via the Kowloon ferry for a few days. Escaping the flu which has most people worried (apart from backpackers, are we stupiad?) Then its back here b4 my flight to Shanghai on Sat.

26th - Caught the ferry across to macau. The ferry terminal was loaded full of Chinese on their hols! After driving around in a cab for ages, I found a nice guesthouse with private room, dbl bed and balcony for 5 quid a nite. Macau seemed nice and had loads of colonial buildings. Macau was founded by the Portugese in the 1600's, but given back in 1999. It now has special status like HK. The penisula is full of forts and numerous colonial buildings and churchs. Checked out the museam of Macau, which was particulary good and had ...