Final thoughts on China. We really enjoyed it. There's so much to see and so much history. Food The food is quite up and down in terms of some dishes that look good taste bad and the opposite. It's difficult to know where to eat and what to get sometimes. We'd recommend sticking with vegetables dishes though. There's plenty of Asian chain restaurants if you want to be safer. And if all else fails there's plenty of western restaurants - Pizza Hut, McDonalds, B...

Had a sleep in again today as we were so tired all day yesterday. Never know what time it is anyway with no bloody windows! Takes ages to get sorted in this bedroom as well seeing as though you can't swing a cat! Took a couple of bags of washing down to the launderette as it's starting to build up now. The lady there just weighed them and it only cost 60HKD (less than £5). It would have only been 45HKD but we had a mix of colours and whites (for anyone staying ...

We had a bit of a lie in this morning to try catch up on our sleep and just grabbed a banana and cereal bar type thing for our breakfast. We decided to go across to Hong Kong Island today, so called by the tourist information centre and picked up a couple of maps. We caught the Star Ferry across which was only 2.50HKD (20p)!! Then we took the number 15 bus from the bus terminus just outside the ferry port to take us up to Victoria Peak. There's lots of sign posts...

Early start this morning! Alarm went off at 5am so we only managed to get about 5 hours sleep. And not had the best nights sleep due to people coming in all night (some of them had been to a party), not to mention sleeping on a plank of wood and sharing the bed with Therese, and fearing of being molested by a cockroach again (actually, one the Chinese guys has probably eaten it by now). We rolled out of bed, threw some clothes on and brushed our teeth. We woke t...