Hong Kong Thursday 10th January - Sunday 13th January Our snoring Chinese companion wakes up and heads out to the buffet car for breakfast, while we slowly rouse ourselves and prepare for our 1pm arrival in Hong Kong.When he returns, he tells us he's 70 and a semi-retired, opera singing maths lecturer at one of the many Hong Kong universities. The conversation is going quite well until he mentions Japan... we ask if he's travelled there, and he explains that h...

Hong Kong 27/12/07 - 2/1/08 The first thing we really noticed when getting to Hong Kong was the Englishness.Not the airport, this was fine, as you would expect from a major international hub, and getting on the bus to Kowloon was also very easy to figure out.But when I was sitting on the bus driving along the motorway and getting into town, I started to notice it. First it was probably driving on the left, but then it was watching the cars go past us while w...