Here, anything containing milk, eg yoghurt, a carton of milk, lists water as its main ingredient.

I haven't been able to get the song Kung Fu by Ash out of my head since I got here.

The Hong Kong MTR (underground) is cool, clean and spacious in the stations and the trains are open all the way through which makes it easier for people to spread through the train. Ticket machines are simple - you just touch where you want to go on the map. A lit up map on the train shows where it is going and which side doors will open at the next station. London Underground could learn a lot from them.

St James's Park is my favourite London park but Hong Kong's urban parks are superior in many ways. Everything here is clean and regulated. The parks are constantly patrolled by security guards to ensure nobody is smoking, feeding animals or lying down on benches. They are also not very natural. It is synthetic nature, with carefully planned and intricately labelled plants. Every slope here has an identification number prominently displayed. There are lakes containing fish and terrapins. I think terrapins would be awesome in British parks, although I doubt they'd enjoy the climate much. There are parks with huge aviaries, caged monkeys, alligators and tortoises. Flamingo lakes. Huge greenhouses filled with plants, comparable to those at Kew Gardens, except that all of these places are totally free to visit. I assume these are to attract tourists, and compensate for the lack of private gardens.

tomorrow is our last day here, in the evening we fly on to Australia.