Thanks to Hong Kong airports awful WiFi am writing this on my unresponsive phone! Things always end up ending the way they started! I decided to travel half way across the city to get breakfast at the Taiwanese cafe chain 85C that was next to my hostel in Yau Ma Tei. I know that sounds quite ridiculous but I really wanted to have their mushroom pastry one last time - it might be the best item of food, in the world. I spent most of the rest of today on the isla...

My last full day in Hong Kong! I really like Hong Kong. Maybe not love it, its very concrete and large swathes of it are characterless city, but I do love how on top of everything the whole place is. I love the chaos, the blending of cultures from across Asia. It's also really interesting being here at such a turning point in it's history. Even if the protests did keep me awake last night. I made it out early to head to Victoria Peak before the crowds. I barely...

I've had to move hostels, and I'm now spending the last two nights of the trip in a sweaty 14 bed dorm with no aircon - and all 14 beds are occupied. What away to see out the trip! It was easy enough making it here from Yau Ma Tei, just 1 change on the metro but it took a while trying to find the entrance. Had to register with the building security and then take a dodgy lift to the 11th floor before getting checked in by the cleaning lady. I had a rather boring ...

I headed out to Sai Kung this morning, by metro and little green bus and twas a tad disappointed. Sai Kung was packed, it's the October break and you could barely move for the thronging crowds. Sai Kung is a wild peninsula in Hong Kong's east but it's main town was a tourist trap. I figured the islands I was planning to hop would be packed so I followed MapsMe on some remote trails down a little trodden peninsula. I was rewarded with gorgeous views of Hong Kong'...

I took things slightly more chill today and headed to the New Territories. These are the mainland areas further inland of Hong Kong, taking a long metro inland up, almost back at Shenzhen. I headed to the Wetland Park. An area of reclaimed land, managed for its ecosystem services. Textbook stuff from my lectures last term! The area surrounding very much lived up to the Hong Kongcrete jibe Hong Kong gets, and it was stuffed with annoying kids. But, overall it was...