Hello! Well today it was our last day in Hong Kong. We're both quite sad to leave as we've really had an amazing time here. There's so much to see and do and on the tight budget and timescale that we have set ourselves we feel that we have done everything we really wanted to. This morning we got up (Matt a little tired after watching the football so early and then coming back to bed at 6am!) and left our hell hole hostel (thank god!) who kindly allowed us to lea...

Hello! Well today it was our last day in Hong Kong. We're both quite sad to leave as we've really had an amazing time here. There's so much to see and do and on the tight budget and timescale that we have set ourselves we feel that we have done everything we really wanted to. This morning we got up (Matt a little tired after watching the football so early and then coming back to bed at 6am!) and left our hell hole hostel (thank god!) who kindly allowed us to lea...

Hello! Surprisingly we have found some time to update our blog again today which is brilliant as we had such a great day! After spending far too long on the internet this morning (free internet in a coffee shop when you buy a coffee - brilliant!) we wandered along 'Avenue of the Stars' which is a bit like the Hong Kong version of the Hollywood stars with the handprints on the floor of the movie stars. We only recognised Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee unfortun...

Hello from Hong Kong! Just to update you since our last blog - we took another extremely exciting overnight train from our trip in the Lonji Rice Terraces down to Hong Kong. This was by far the best train though as we were sharing a berth with four other people from our group so luckily there was no snoring or interruptions during the night - we both slept pretty well even though we were both on a top bunk. We arrived at the train station at about 11am (and had ...