Day 6 Today we took the metro up to Mong Kok, an area reknowned locally for it's thriving market culture, but I'm not so sure that we found the right place, as I was left hugely underwhelmed by stall after stall of identical goods, and at times it felt like being in a scene from Scooby Doo, where Scooby and Shaggy are chasing the suspect down a corridor and the background keeps repeating itself. Unsurprisingly, with all that cheap tat around, Daley's Hong Kong ...

Day 5 Woke up feeling refreshed after a long, and much needed sleep. After a quick shower we strolled down to the harbour and caught the Star Ferry across the river to Hong Kong Island. Upon arrival we searched high and low for a shop or stall serving something that even vaguely resembled breakfast. As luck would have it, we came across a rather unfriendly looking lady at a stall and purchased fresh (warm) pineapple smoothies and two tubs of Dim Sum. Oh how I la...

Day 4 Yep, there it is, the first hangover of our travels. Daley informs me that vast quantities of Jaegermeister and Tequilla are to blame so it looks like today is a bit of a write off. We had planned to go to Lantau Island but just couldn't face it. To be totally honest, performing any kind of function with the required bodily cohesion was a challenge until late afternoon, so we strolled around Kowloon in a surreal daze for a couple of hours, applied for Chi...

Day 3 Check out was at noon so we made the most of the morning by going off exploring. The ever courteous Royal Park Hotel staff suggested that we visited the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery, just a short walk from the Sha Tin MTR station. We followed the signs, took lots of photos, made sure we took it all in but something just didn't feel right about the place. Unperturbed, we pressed on towards the summit, expecting to find some grand statue or monument but we...

Day 2 Daley - "What do you want to do today, Steve?" Steve - "Don't you worry my friend, I've got a brilliant idea!" So, we're into our second day and the weather here is absolutely scorching. So hot in fact that even the locals can't bear it. You may now be thinking 'today would be a good day to keep in the shade, Steve, maybe go to a museum or something?' and you would have been right. Genius here decided it was a perfect day to go traip...