So I don’t really remember what I wrote in my last blog. It was a very quick one and one done while I was in Hong Kong.
Anyhoo I guess I should write this blog about my utmost average time in Hong Kong.
So I was there for 3 weeks, and the weather I guess was a bit warmer than what it was in the UK, to the point where I didn’t need to wear a hoody/jumper/coat. But this did leave me being shouted at for not wearing one as it was “cold” so meh.
So week 1...
The trip started off with missing a bus!! Good times... sitting at the airport for an extra 2 hours waiting for the bus!
We had a hotel for the first 3 nights in HK staying in Sha Tin area. This apparently was the area where I lived for a year with my gran... but I don’t remember it as I was very little, but I also got told that I blew up a microwave by trying to cook an egg. So fun times!!
Anyhoo on the second day, I guess you could say that my brother had jetlag of some form, and his brain wasn’t working because he entered himself, and only himself into an all you can eat buffet at 6am! From this we got told he ate... 40 sausages, 25 bacon rashers, stupid number of eggs, loads of hash browns, and some other continental European breakfast i.e. ham and cheese! (He said he wanted to try one item of everything!)
Now we did get told last night that we were having brekkie/lunch with my oldest uncle, grandfather and cousin. And only a couple of months earlier when my uncle and cousin visited us in the UK my uncle stated “when you get to Hong Kong I will treat you to REAL dim sum!” he only mentioned this because he was disgusted at the price and the quality of the food offered to him in Southampton!
Thus that day he was able to fulfil his mention by ordering 3 portions of EVERYTHING!! Which equated to 60+ items of food. Now ordering 1 portion of everything would have been enough!! Anyhoo... now my brother who was still full from his little personal competition was offered a bit more food for him to try and eat. I guess you could say he finished off most of the meal!! That night... he threw up EVERYWHERE!! And was sick. And was an utter failure!!
Other things that happened this week was... went to the immigration department office block... yeah... immigration!! And went to “Tsang” island or Lantau Island, to Mui Wo village.
I guess this village is where my father’s side of the family comes from!! And I guess it’s one of those places where everyone knows EVERYONE!! And to make matters worse.... it seemed like everyone I met there was part of my extended family! “Oh you should know him/her; they’re your aunt/uncle/ cousin/nephew/niece! Last time you was here you played together and stuff?!?”
“Yeah... last time... *scratching head* that was 6/7 years ago...”
(The house of Tsang)
We stayed a night in Mui Wo in I guess you couldn’t call it a hotel.... it was more of a stinky hostel with only 30 seconds of hot water, and stinky pillows and sheets... oh and a hole in the bed. But at least they offered a tooth brush... a stolen toothbrush... from a PROPER hotel!! (I don’t have photos but my brother does will try to get some later)
On the second day on the island we went to the “Big Buddha” at Ngong Ping 360 where you can also get there by cable car... I wanted to go on the cable car... mom said no. Later on in the week I got told by my cousin that a cable car randomly fell last week from there. So I guess fair enough. We got the bus.
Now I don’t know how many steps it is to get to the Buddha on the top of the hill/mountain/rock... but I ran all the way up them to the top... good exercise I thought!! Compared to my brother... who I actually have a photo of... halfway up holding on to the side... having a breather!! Haha FATTY!!! (he's the one in the purple shirt!!)
Later on we took a bus to the market town of Tai O. Saw lots of things... smelled lots of things... went past lots of interesting smells... saw things I didn’t like... and found snow white and her 7 dwarfs with a sign say “spouse wanted” got an interesting panorama of the area... saw lots of stray dogs... saw a stray get kicked by a shop owner.... and then go the bus back to Mui Wo where we got the boat back to Kowloon.
Wrote some postcards...
And pow that was week one.
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