This morning I was returning home to Canada and had a flight connection via Hong Kong. I was awake from 4am so watching a Russian retro film in low volume.Breakfast didnt start till 7am so I went down from 6.45 to see if they would let me in as I had to leave the hotel as close to 7 as possible.I left by 7.15 and made my way to the metro. There were some homeless people sleeping in the street so I left some of my small paper bills with each of them on my way out....

During my stay my hostel was at the infamous Chung King Mansions. This is a complex of four builidings at the foot of Nathan Road a short walk to the kowloon harbour to view the hong kong island skyline and take the star ferry across. Its reputation is so bad with the locals even my friends from hong kong said they had never set foot in there.The complex is four high rise towers connected by a ground level shopping arcade. Every floor in each tower is a private g...

Next I took the ferry back across to hong kong island to get some lunch end explore the north side of the island. I remember there was a halal pizza place at the ferry terminal, but now when I went to take a look, their jumbo pizza for $40 HKD ($5) was actually only really the size of a cd case so I wanted something more filling.Instead I got a chicken kebab for the same price including a drink. Then I went across on the elevated walkways to statue square. There ...

Last nite I was disturbed in the night by noises in the room. I've had two bad experiences with mice in the room and I thought this was about to be my third. I turned the lights on but didnt understand where a mouse could come from as the room was sealed.After a while I heard noises coming from the airvent above my bed. I left the lights on and eventually they moved away. So now I had to leave the light on all night as the room had no windows and was essentially ...

I was now tired after my early morning flight so wanted to head back to the hostel to get some sleep. I took a bus back from Aberdeen to Central where the ferry terminals are for $5.80 HKD ($.70 cents). I got off a stop early as there was a nice waterside park overlooking kowloon on the opposite north sides of the straits.Then I had to walk back towards the ferry terminal a stop ahead. The kowloon ferry is the last of seven piers so a bit of a walk. On one of the...