last day in bangkok. havent done much for the last 4 days except drink beer and walk the surrounding streets trying to avoid the constant offers of suit sellers and nicey nicey massagey boom boomy pedallars. Met a nice couple and went to a well dodgy ping pong show. Wasnt going to go to one. Not my thing but Tim and Bridgit forced me into it... That was a bit ridiculous to say the least. Tim did get one of the girls to write his name with a felt pen in her ...

thought i would take the peak tram to the peak today.. 2 hour queue and 5 minute journey. great view though. cloudy and foggy. went to walk back down and took a wrong turn and so followed a 1 1/2 hour trek right around the mountain and ended up back at the peak again. duh!! eventually founf the way down......70 degree slope all the way. god knows how anyone walks UP that. my legs are killing me. went for some japanese food and saw a cockroach running ac...

penultimate day in HK.. First day of the new year today so nearly everything is closed in the day. Not saying where i had to go for breakfast but it begins with Mc and ends in Donalds.! the worst breakfast i ever had. Absolutely baltic frrr fffrrrr fffrrrrrrriiiiikkkiinnnn ffffffrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeezzzinn!! today. 4 layers on and still icicles hangin from my nose/.! Why i decided to go to Lantau island today i dont know. Well i guess it was worth it,...

yesterday was day two in hong kong and a bit boring... weather rubbish, cloudy and foggy, so cant see much around the place. went to some kinda botanical garden zoo thing. not much cop but the monkeys were interesting and one of the lemurs kept puttin his tickle tackle through the cage bars for display. didnt get a photo of that thank god.! bloody exhibitionist. took about 30 seconds to walk round the indoor gardens: spectacular...not! today i slept in til 3....

first full day in HK... after a crazy fist night when i thought i would get eaten up by the swarms of people around the hostel i finally got my bearings. the hostel is pretty good as they go. i went past chungking mansions just to see what i was in for if i stayed there and thank god i didnt opt for that one... even though its a hong kong heritage site it is well ropey. The streets are alive at night. This is when HK comes alive like an organism with a mi...