Hong Kong

Hong Kong

The city has the hustle and bustle of all other SE Asian cities but still carries the advantages of being a fairly recent former British colony. By this I mean Hong Kong has all of the things that I've being taking for granted back in the UK. Such things are; English road signs, being able to flush a toilet, being able to flush toilet paper, warm showers etc. The

The city is amazing the skyline itself is mind blowing. My days were spent using the MTR "Mass Transit Railway" to explore the areas of Wan Chai, Kowloon, Mong Kok (where there is a whole street devoted to trainers "Sneaker Street) and Causeway Bay. Jamie had visited before and knew his way around pretty well. The highlight of my stay other than the rugby was taking the tram to the top of "The Peak" and being above the massive sky scrapers looking out across the harbour from a 360 viewing deck was again amazing!!! We also has dinner at the top at Bubba Gump shrimp house (based on the film Forrest Gump) waiters came to your table when you displayed a "Stop Forrest Stop" sign pretty funny! All of this whilst looking out over the HK skyline AWESOME!

Our last night in HK and for me SE Asia was spent at Aqua cocktail bar looking out over the harbour from the 19th floor and watching the laser show. This followed by dinner in Soho and then drinks in Lan Kwai Fong was unreal. Lions fans everywhere with crazy up market night clubs made for a great night! My newly acquired paisley shirts went down a storm as did the numerous vodka jellies....

Game Day: Lions v Barbarians
I had to meet Adam a friend from the rugby club who had our tickets  and a few bits from home for me. We started in Champs sports bar then pub crawled through the CRAZY Wan Chai before heading to the amazing HK Stadium. The atmosphere wasn't the best as it wasn't a sell out but we smashed the Ba Ba's which is all that matters. The no booze in the stadium rule overcome by Adam pouring mass amounts of vodka into a plastic coke cup again awesome. After the game we headed to Wan Chai had food and partied the night away BRILLIANT!!

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