i always knew even before we left that china was going to be a massive pain! They are picky about who they let in their country. We got the fast ferry from Macau to Hong kong Kowloon side - only 11 quid and only took an hour.. however the journey was a little bumpy and i was feeling a little sea sick.

We found our hostel easily after some more arguements with the taxi drivers (we'd gotton the address written in chinese and some people still refused to take us - basically if their not sure where it is they will just shake their head).
First problem of the day - i'd booked the completley wrong dates for the hotel stay.. oops. massive error, we'd booked 3 days - the hostel were good and said they had room for 2 days just not the third..also a more expensive room. second error.
Next problem of the day was that we didnt take into consideration the easter holidays...so to get our chinese visa we were going to have to pay for a rush service....at treble the cost. ouch! That was an extra 250 pound we didnt account for.
First thing we did was rush over to the visa place...filled in the forms and handed them in. the woman gave mart his back and said redo it and dont put down that you work for the police as they will reject your application. So mart then became a 'nurse' who works for birmingham childrens hospital. Feeling a little deflated and wounded because of the price (strange now we're on the last bit of money doesnt half make you panic!) we naturally found a pub.
After a few drinks to pick our spirits up we walked down to victoria harbour to watch the sympony of lights show. Spectacular! One of the biggest and coolest skylines we've seen (we've established we've done the major ones: NYC, Sinagpore, Hong Kong...thinking Toyko has to be soon?).
We were walking around the city and saw a very over the top funny proposal, a man was singing a song (with a microphone i may add) whilst people surrounded the woman with balloons saying will you marry me...quite sweet. We found the night markets on temple street and got the patches pins and postcards we needed. Much needed nights sleep was not found - forgotton how weird it is to sleep in a dorm room, i get paranoid that everyones watching me sleep.

Following day was beautiful sunshine! We walked back down to victoria harbour for day time photos and followed the avenue of stars (just like the hollywood walk of fame...but chinese) i only recognised Jet Li so had a photo there with my first ever chinese style pose (theres going to be a lot of those coming up). We then went to book our train to shanghai... it was nearly full so we panicked and booked it (not sitting together) not knowing if our visas had been granted..so spent the next few hours worrying if we'd just made a mistake. Turned up to the visa place for 18:00 like she said and they informed us the passports werent there yet...the place closed at 18:30 and they arrived about 18:27...relief.
More alcohol was needed.
We spent a long time searching for somewhere to stay for good friday..theres one area on nathan road (this is one of the main roads in kowloon) that is just FULL of hawkers ''Sir/Madam, suit, watches, hangbags''...mart thinks its cause of his beard but once we shook our heads they then offered him ''weed, hash, cocaine''. Much more hours of searching we established hostels were 40 quid but we got a really nice hotel for 53.
Now everything was sorted we could finally spend our last day being tourists. Woke early to another beautiful day and went shopping (actually brought a t-shirt each - nice to have something clean!) and strolled around the park. It was quite hot in the sunshine so made some stops for frozen margaritas then headed down to the harbour. We took the ferry from Kowloon to Hong Kong island for about 30p. Hong Kong island is just full of reallllly tall buildings slightly similar to NYC.
We spent the first few hours really lost but then managed to find the bus to take us up to ''the peak''. This is probably the most famous attraction of hong kong...its obviously really high and a viewing area that overlooks both Kowloon and Hong Kong island. Its beautiful..Its like the NYC skyline with an ocean in the middle then carried on with a few mountains in the back. Took some photos and then headed to a cafe that overlooked it all (beer obviously).. then headed back up for night time photos (the blue hour that i like to capture)..established that chinese people can NOT take photos for you.....asked 4 different people and they managed to get close ups of our faces and nothing of the background..
Caught the bus back down (was like being back in vietnam with a maniac driver).. then got the ferry back over to kowloon, timed it (unintentionally) perfectly so that we were on the ferry for the light show..good photos.
We are now currently waiting until it is time to get our train to Shanghai...ive been abit nervous about catching trains to china for a while as ive heard the language barrier makes it so hard but we're heading to the train station super early. i have the hostel in shanghai's address translated into chinese and our visas in our passports ready. Kindle is full of new books for the 20 hour journey to Shanghai!