Sadly this is our last day in Hong Kong. Met up with Kathleen and Pat last night. Took the star ferry over to Hong Kong - 10 minute crossing - got a bit lost trying to take a short cut through the shops! However found them at the Kowloon Hotel on Nathan Road (very posh but they don't have heated loo seats) Had a great night with a meal and lots of newsing(Aberdonian for catching up with the gossip) at a place called Hooters, we visited the one in Singapore as ...

Early start this morning - downloading photos for you to look at hope you all like them. Picked up at 8.20am from the hotel for the Kowloon and New Territories trip. Heavy rain and it was very cold, visited a couple of Budhist Temples first the Man Mo temple in Fanling then the Wong Tia Sin Temple. On to Chung Tia Po which is the biggest oldest house of the original chinese empire, which is still own by the chung family. Also a sales gimmick to jewellery fact...

Overslept this morning, considering we haven't had much sleep since we left home and we lost another two and a half hours we were not surprised. Last night we got changed and went out to find our bearings and had something to eat, our hotel is very nice 28 floors in all and we have been upgraded to the executive rooms on the 24th floor. We are very near to Times Square, which has lots of lovely shops, unfortuantely they were colsed by the time we had something t...

What a difference a day makes, arrived at the Best Airport in the world - thats official - on a Cathay Pacific flight, which was very roomy and couldn't fault it at all. Lovely clean warm inviting hotel!!What a place so much to do so little time

Well this is our last day in India - thank god! While we were in Delhi the builders moved into our hotel making lots of noise, we are having to have cold showers - no hot water, when we complain we are told Later! and to end it all we have unwanted guests camping in our loo, cockcroaches!! We booked an AC car and driver to take us to the gate of India which is the old colonial part, and it was very enjoyable glad we seen it. Our driver Raj - very original - was...