The journey has began after a very stressful and argumentative morning we were collected at 1pm and driven to the airport. A really good journey we arrived an hour earlier than expected. The great thing about business class is we could also drop our bags off early and enjoy the facilities of the lounge.
We had a glass of wine and a free lunch (does such a thing really exist?) and then explored the shops. We walked down to the plane and started chatting to a 79 year old man flying out on his own to then travel back for a month on the Aurora. Unfortunately he thought it would be his last trip due to the high cost of insurance but what a trip. We both said we hoped we were still travelling the world when 79 years of age.
The flight to Hong Kong was long but uneventful we both slept some of the way, watched a few films and drank the obligatory glass of champagne. We arrived at Hong Kong at 2.20pm, 8 hours ahead of the uk and was collected by a dirver in a merc. He drove us the 45 min trip to our hotel for 2 nights the Kowloon Shangri-La.
A really nice hotel we went straight to our room and although both felt so tired decided to stay up we went for a walk and went for lunch at a Susi bar, we had approx 6 dishes and total cost was nearly £4 (it costs that for 1 dish in You Sushi in Birmingham!).
We then went down the pool for a swim and a jacuzzi. When we returned to the room the maid had left a pot of china tea, you can see the basket in the pictures. We then decided to be brave and ventured out up the Nathen Road, the big shopping area. Apart from being stopped every 10 yards and asked if we want to buy a suit or fake watches it felt really safe. We were trying to find the street market but walked for miles without finding it.
We were feeling tired so decided to brave the underground system, wow how amazing is that, so clean and the trains are so long, must be 1/4 of a mile long.
Finally to finish the adventure we found a chinese restaurant (not hard in Hong Kong( and had a wonderful meal. We collapsed in to bed at 10.30pm a great first day.
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