Hong Kong
It's the eve of the 10th Anniversary of Hong Kong SAR's return to China. It is also the beginning of a 2 month long Shopping Festival in the city.
This morning our first task was to have our laundry done - right across from our hostel in a small alley is a laundry service (very convenient). We paid about HKD$35 for 8 or so pounds of clothes for only 2 hours.
Second task was to check for train tickets to Shenzhen. We walked through the Tsim Sha Tsui metro station which connects via a long winding underground subway to the East Tsim Sha Tsui rail station. There we found out that trains going to Lowu, the final station just before Shenzhen, ran every 4 minutes and was only about HKD$35 one way. We needn't have to get a ticket prior to our departure, vending machines are available for that on the day we leave.
Third task was breakfast. Knowing that Hong Kong starts its day late, especially restaurants we found food at the corner of the street, selling pancit and chow fun. Peter got the pancit to go (well, it was a street-type food stall). Then rain began to pour so we ducked into Yoshinoya (again) for my own breakfast.
By the time we finished rain was still pouring but not too hard. We walked a different route towards the HK Cultural Center near the Harbor and ended up back at Harbour City mall where we did some window shopping and eating.
The downpour started to get heavy and we had to make sure we picked up our clothes before the shop clothes for the day and opened up on Monday. We braved the rains armed with our hats and one umbrella. Still got wet.
We decided to stay in the hostel room until later that day. Then left around 5:30 p.m. to walk through the smaller streets (found a nice big bookstore where we browsed interesting books) to look for places to have dinner. For some reason, I wasn't at all hungry, so we went back to Harbour City (went to PageOne bookstore first) then Peter had his Indian dinner set while I looked on. Later we went back to PageOne to browse some more until finally we went back to the hostel.
This computer I am posting on is right outside our hostel room. We just needed to get an internet card to connect. Very convenient. Plus, right next to me is a telephone, hot water heater, a refrigerator and a microwave, all for our use.
It's the eve of the 10th Anniversary of Hong Kong SAR's return to China. It is also the beginning of a 2 month long Shopping Festival in the city.
This morning our first task was to have our laundry done - right across from our hostel in a small alley is a laundry service (very convenient). We paid about HKD$35 for 8 or so pounds of clothes for only 2 hours.
Second task was to check for train tickets to Shenzhen. We walked through the Tsim Sha Tsui metro station which connects via a long winding underground subway to the East Tsim Sha Tsui rail station. There we found out that trains going to Lowu, the final station just before Shenzhen, ran every 4 minutes and was only about HKD$35 one way. We needn't have to get a ticket prior to our departure, vending machines are available for that on the day we leave.
Third task was breakfast. Knowing that Hong Kong starts its day late, especially restaurants we found food at the corner of the street, selling pancit and chow fun. Peter got the pancit to go (well, it was a street-type food stall). Then rain began to pour so we ducked into Yoshinoya (again) for my own breakfast.
By the time we finished rain was still pouring but not too hard. We walked a different route towards the HK Cultural Center near the Harbor and ended up back at Harbour City mall where we did some window shopping and eating.
The downpour started to get heavy and we had to make sure we picked up our clothes before the shop clothes for the day and opened up on Monday. We braved the rains armed with our hats and one umbrella. Still got wet.
We decided to stay in the hostel room until later that day. Then left around 5:30 p.m. to walk through the smaller streets (found a nice big bookstore where we browsed interesting books) to look for places to have dinner. For some reason, I wasn't at all hungry, so we went back to Harbour City (went to PageOne bookstore first) then Peter had his Indian dinner set while I looked on. Later we went back to PageOne to browse some more until finally we went back to the hostel.
This computer I am posting on is right outside our hostel room. We just needed to get an internet card to connect. Very convenient. Plus, right next to me is a telephone, hot water heater, a refrigerator and a microwave, all for our use.
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