We arrived at 6am in international terminal. It is a huge airport with moving pavements to help you reach immigration. So many people! We had a coffee to wake us up and got in a taxi to go to hotel.

We arrived there 8am and were able to take our room from then. After a shower change of clothes and a sleep, we ventured out. We are in a brand new hotel in an old area of Mongcok.

It was 11.30am and we were hungry! We headed up 3 floors in a lift to “the London restaurant” . It was packed with people being seated at any table with spare chairs.It was so noisy, they were going to seat us on a table of 4 people there already, but thought better of it, so we were taken further into this huge restaurant to a small table.

We were the only Europeans in there . No one seemed to speak English but they helped us when we ordered too much rice by mistake. The food arrived in no real order and at different times brought by different ladies. So we ate it one dish by one dish as it arrived. It was tasty and our starter soup arrived at the end. It was flavoured water with a  floating meatball dumpling which had been in there for a while and all wrinkly and pale looking. Yuk we couldn’t fancy eating it. I broke the dumpling open and there was a mixture of meats definitely a bit of chicken and the rest looked suspicious.

The streets are dirty and smelly with masses of people, lights traffic and noise. What a shock to the system in comparison with 9 weeks of hardly seeing many people on the streets and beaches in NZ.

In the evening we wandered through the heaving busy ladies market. Quite enjoyed this experience. we are definitely in a chinese area so few European faces around, quite a novelty for me to be in the minority. We were still hungry so found a pitza hut restaurant after going up 4 escalators in a shopping centre. I had lasagne and preferred this place as it was calmer and food I was used to!

We have jet lag as HongKong is 5 hours difference to NZ. We are going on a hop on off bus tour tomorrow if all goes to plan! 

Love to you all from tired weary J and V xxx