We arrived in Australia bleary-eyed yet excited after playing the usual game of looking at the carrousel nervously hoping that it is not my turn to have my bag misplaced in a county miles away we gathered our bags and went outside that is when we reconciled back in the horror. My rather naïve fantasy of the sunny Australia with locals walking around in their swim-wear disappeared. It was rainy outside with all of the people in their winter clothes. I had to d...

Today, we decided that we can fit in Npong Ping which resides on Lantau Island and it is also home of the giant Buddha statue before we depart Hong Kong. It is also the island next to Airport Island which is even more convenient for us. We headed there with our backpacks which we quickly ditched in the lockers and purchased the tickets for the cable car which will take us to Lantau Island. We scrambled in the cable car and start our ascend thankfully no-one in...

We woke up today and we were tempted to try out hotel facilities which present me bit of a dilemma- Man up and go out to see more sights like a true traveller or stay in for a bit and pamper myself as I would in England, I opted for latter with the reasoning that in Australia I would rough it up ( A prediction which came true!) We went to the local post office and posted our gifts; the workers there were very helpful and guided us on the Hong Kong as well inte...

Today, we decided to go to Hong Kong island which is the home of Stanley Market filled with bargains, Hong Kong is actually composed of several islands, the main island is called New Territories. The other islands is Airport island which is actually a man-made island so Hong Kong have somewhere to build airport on and a historic island called Lantau So we got a tube to Hong Kong Island. The tube was so clean and I can tell Hong Kong is obsessed with the hygien...

We made our departure from Shenzhen, a matter which were complicated by the fact that air conditioning in our room leaked overnight and drowned some of Ashley's stuff but we got half of our room fee back- a fact which delight me and my dry stuff! We got a tube towards to Luo Wan which is an immigration point for the people entering Hong Kong, it were straightforward but bit of a pain in arse because we have to fill in loads of forms. Eventually we entered Hong...