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28 September 2008
Kimball and I took the ferry to Hong Kong today. We had enough time to fit in a yumcha before he went to work, winging home to New Zealand. I taxied up the hill to stay with my Couchsurfing host, Paul. To my surprise, he was a mature gentleman a little older than me. Quite […]
28 August 2008
I arrived into Hong Kong at 0645 in very good shape … the dryness of the aircraft cabin must be good for the sinuses … no more jaw-ache. By late morning, I was feeling pretty miserable again … I could hardly open my mouth due to the pain in my upper jaw. This has to […]
3 May 2008
We flew to Hong Kong with a couple of friends Melody and Brendan. We had a good couple of days with them. It was good to have people who were relatively new to Hong Kong as it meant that we made a greater effort to do things … even revisit the places we had been […]
15 November 2007
Our flight arrived into Hong Kong slightly after 0600 and it was about 0800 by the time we go to the Novotel in Wanchai. We showered and slept till 1100 when I rang Rosalind, a friend from school for our catch-up arrangements. Rosalind and another school friend, Mary turned up and we walked a few […]
5 November 2002
We took the Star Ferry to meet Kim’s friend Chris for yum cha breakfast. He took us to a tall-ish round building with a revolving restaurant at the top. While the restaurant we went to wasn’t in the top revolving portion, it still offered a spectacular view up at about level 60. They did very […]
4 November 2002
After arriving at Hong Kong’s international airport, we found the train to the city. At the city end of the ride, we had to transfer to connecting shuttle buses (included in the fare) to the Park Hotel. [Edit: in later years, we decided that the public bus is actually faster than the train if one […]
17 October 2002
Our flight had left Auckland on time and took nearly 12h to get to Hong Kong. Upon disembarkation around 1800, we went to the transfer desk to collect boarding passes for tomorrow morning’s flight to Bangkok and Chengdu. Initially, we were told they could only give us the first one to Bangkok but not the […]