Sausages in syrup for breakfast - must be in Hong Kong

Our first day watching a demo during an interschool kung foo competition.

Impressions of Hong Kong

Mile after mile of skyscraper accomodation for the masses. Some new and smart some really tatty.

Cheap public transport, 30p for tube ride, 20p for ferry ride and 90p for bus ride of 10 miles.

Its Sunday and the place for women to be is down town sitting on cardboard in the street chatting.

In down town area lots of moderm extremely posh upmarket shopping malls. Some Chinese must be wealthy. Nearly bought a Rolex for 51000 GBP! Otherwise lots of small shops catering for the masses. Its like Balham High Street to the power of 10. Carved ivory shops.

But downtown area very clean and no litter - better than Wellington. Sea eagles around the harbour. Harbour very busy with loads of local junks ferries and cruise ships. Lots of markets - have to haggle.

Tap water tastes like water out the harbour, and the harbour water is used to flush the loos, its a kind of yellow grey colour.

Totally disgusting food or perhaps medicine in some shops, eg dried lizzards, goose necks and heads and dried squid and lots of other indescribable stuff.

Bamboo scaffolding, tied together with polypropylene tape, up to 10 storeys high.

Bus drivers trained by Lewis Hamilton.

Here is Delia in the space museum in the moon walking simulation facility, gravity 1/6th that on Earth!

We are mery impressed with this city. No problems so far and again people are very friendly and willing to help.

I was going to say we have not eaten well - the Take Away in Liss has better food than here, but cant say that after last night. Fantastic place - eat as much as you like buffet style. Raw tuna amd salmon, shrimps and scallops, sweet and sour pork and I finished with roast beef (no yorkshire pudding). Then when full after the dessert, they brought us two lobsters just because we were senior citizens!

Well this has been a fantastic adventure - the best since BC. But the pills are running out so it must be time to come home. Back to the UK tomorrow.

Any mistakes in this I am putting down to the Chinese QWERTY keyboard - every key carries four characters, only one English and its dark in here!