Well actually, when you read the itinerary its China trip day 3 for some people but they got on a plane on day one and landed here at 1am on day 3 so they spent day 2 on a plane or in an airport somewhere.......they're an interesting bunch, the others in our tour group.
One lady has a bag that weighed in at 20.1kg. She has apparently bought 5 pairs of shoes.
Maybe its just that they all look very clean and pressed and we definately do not!
Anyway, we all met up at 09.30 and went for breakfast (2nd breakfast for us as Martyn forgot to tell me the tour guide had told him about breakfast yesterday so i went and bought his birthday breakfast goodies. Consequently Martyn has two birthday breakfasts - yogurt and oats followed by dim sum. Interesting combo!).
Quick return to the hotel for a briefing from Jerry our guide (who seems to have completely missed the fact that we are land only and have been travelling for 5 months as he keeps asking for paperwork that has obviously been posted to us in England!)
Forced route march to the base of the peak tram on Hong Kong Island. This was apparently our 'orientation tour'. I'm not kidding. A speed walker would have trouble keeping up. Down to the ferry, on the ferry, along to the base of the tram at which point Jerry said something along the lines of 'here you go, you go up, I go now'. So we went up the tram and saw.......you guessed it, us and things high up - we saw the cloud! Had to laugh.
Depressingly (VERY depressingly) our lovely tour group then decided they needed a drink - beer in Bubba Gumps. We managed not to cry (just) and in the interests of fitting in went with the flow. After their beer we went down in the tram. We lasted another 10 mins of 'what shall we do now then' before we plumped for going back to Kowloon to see the China Revolution exhibit we had missed in the museum the other day.
Error - museum closed on Tuesdays. Thats the trouble with travelling for a long time - you have no idea what day it is and even if you do know what day it is you completely forget to look up the opening times and just assume everything is always open when you want it to be!
Ho hum, wandered back to hotel a different way and packed.
Met group for dinner and watched Symphony of Lights again - but saw much more this time due to cloud clearing!
So, China here we come. Not sure what will happen with this blog from here on in - we'll try to keep it going but what the heck, in 18 days we'll be home. CRIPES. Just actually worked that out. This has to have been the fastest 5.5 months of our lives. Given everything we've done China has a lot to live up to. We think it'll give it a good shot though.
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