Hello all we're nearing the end of our stay in Hong Kong and Having had a poor start to our stay what with cockroach ridden hostels and awfull weather it would be easy to assume that we would have had enough but truth be told the last couple of days here have been awesome. The weather has picked up and allthough still very very muggy it has stopped rainning here, the temperature is around 35 degrees each day but now we have a little tan. There is a swimming p...

Hi everyone! Well since our last blog we haven't done too much other than look for a new place to stay! As some of you are aware when we arrived at our hostel here in Hong Kong it was less than pretty! The room we were staying in had cockroaches and then bed was made out of a 2cm thick piece of wood (thats it) and there was a coat hanger conducting the electricity to the tv (which for obvious reasons we dare not turn on). After our first day out we came back to ...

Well as we boarded the train for Hong Kong we were made well aware we were leaving the country (which is odd as obviously Hong Kong is part of China) and we were given a ticket to say our chinese visa has expired because we were leaving the country, so this messed up our plans a little as to get the train to Hanoi or Saigon (Vietnam) we have to re-enter China! So rather than pay for another visa we decided to change our route, we are trying to change our flights ...