After a leisurely morning at home we drove into Central, parked the car in the IFC building and walked across the walkways to the outlying ferry terminals. Luckily we only had about 15 minutes to wait before the departure time of the ferry which would take us to Cheung Chau. We bought Deluxe Class tickets which meant we could go upstairs and, even better, go and sit outside at the back of the boat. It was such a beautiful, sunny day which was a real change afte...

Julie had quite a long lie in and we all spent a very leisurely morning. After lunch Julie decided that she needed to buy some more hair elastics so we walked down into Happy Valley so that she could buy some. Well,we tried Park N Shop and no luck. We tried Mannings, Watsons, Japan Home store, the Chinese Home store and many more. In fact we trudged the length and breadth of Happy Valley trying each and every shop which might possibly stock hair elastics but to n...

Today was the first really sunny day since Julie had arrived in Hong Kong. As it was so clear we decided that it would be a great day to go up the Peak and see the views. We thought it would be nice to go up on the Peak Tram and were quite sure that there wouldn't be much of a queue at this time of year. WRONG!! We soon realised that quite a large crowd of people had decided to join us in taking advantage of the sunshine and visit the Peak by way of the tram! Luc...

Today we decided that we would visit the Wetland Park. We had heard good things about it but none of us had ever been there before. It was a 50 minute drive out into the New Territories, through several tunnels and across some amazing bridges along the way. It is some time since Amanda and Simon have been over this way and they were quite amazed to see just how many more high rise (40 and 50 storey) blocks of flats have mushroomed in new towns we haven't seen bef...

To our amazement it was about 1 o'clock in the afternoon before any of us even stirred. We had slept half the day away!! Our excuse was that we must have needed it. Also it was so dark outside and heavy rain was falling so there wasn't much to get up for anyway! In the end we had a very lazy day, which was thoroughly enjoyable! We decided that we shouldn't spend a whole day without leaving the apartment so in the early evening we went to the FCC to get some dinn...