After being hassled by passport control at Macau because my signature on my landing card didn’t look like my passport signature (hello, my photo…) I made it to Hong Kong fairly easily. Seeing as I arrived on a Friday night it seemed necessary to tear it up a little! I think I finally got home around 7am, this photo captured the essence of the evening…

After finally rising around 5pm on Saturday, I wandered around town a little with my gracious host. We hopped on the (apparently) famous Star Ferry about which I’m told there were serious street protests. It seems Hong Kongers were outraged that the ferry pier was going to be moved a hundred yards! We also soaked up some of Hong Kong’s architectural delights, this being the tallest building in HK…

I liked the busy feeling to Hong Kong, it’s a bit like visiting China town anywhere else in the world!

Sunday afternoon took a leisurely stroll down to Causeway Bay, apparently taken over by Phillipinos on Sundays. I couldn’t quite believe it, but they literally picnic in the streets, in any open space there are literally thousands of Phillipinos, almost exclusively women, sitting around presumably catching up on the week’s gossip.

Sunday evening the wondeful Erie took me for some Hong Kong noodles, when in Rome and all that! I was impressed to see the evidence of a hundred years of British rule in the restaurant’s bathroom…

So all in all, a great weekend, I’ll be back in Hong Kong again soon I’m sure.