After a much needed lie in we awoke on Wednesday and headed to the familiar Central Pier to take advantage of the free admission into the museums. The space museum was small but interesting although disappointingly despite our badgering Owen refused to go in the zero gravity harness (as the rest of us exceeded height and/or weight limits). The real excitement of the day was going to Causeway Bay for race night. The impressive course boasted a grandstand that wou...

So on Tuesday we decided to continue the theme of getting out of the city and took the guide books advice of going to Stanley. Sadly whilst the journey on the bus to the South of Hong Kong Island and Stanley itself was beautiful the place had become somewhat westernised with an agglomeration of English bars, pizza houses and chip shops littering the waterfront bringing with them typical western tourists and prices. Being the poor travelling folk we decided to go...

So the past couple have days have been pretty cultural with a few more £1 beers thrown in from time to time. Where to start? We went to the temple of 10,000 buddhas which was incredible. In Sha Tin it offered some incredible views of The New Territories as the sun set and had some amazing spiritual temple rooms full of incense (not to mention 10,000 different Buddha statues). We went over to Central to do some much needed exploring as this is the main place to ...

The ferry ride onto the main island was cool, offering great views of Hong Kong's skyscrapers. After a couple hours of checking out some more of Hong Kong, during which Chris lost his bank card in the machine, we found a bizarre little bar selling giant beers for just under a pound - result. After a few beers and a few laughs we headed back to get changed and meet Holly. We went on the underground to Temple Street, passing some fortune tellers and the jade marke...

So after a 13 hour flight on an awesome Virgin plane we arrived in Hong Kong. Ed's friend Holly met us at the airport and took us from the airport on Lantau island into the centre of Kowloon for a wonder round the bright lights of Hong Kong via the uber efficient underground system. We had our first (and rather comical) experience of chopsticks with some shredded chicken, noodle and rice soup and a cup of mango tea but after some more exploring (which included t...