Honkers.

On our first full day in Hong Kong we went for breakfast by the ferry port. a cool little chain over here is cafe de coral and they do fried breakfast and whatnot, but all them have MEAT!!! so i was like can i have only eggs, and she was like do u want sausage, no thanks. pork, no thanks, only egg so she gives me my order and i find i only have 4 fried eggs - no toast, no nothing - and when your stomach is feeling a fragile as mine was that makes u feel very ill, needlss to say i was in teh bogs a minute later, only reached the spits stage ...

after breakfast we caught the star ferry across the harbour to central where i bought my Nikon digital slr (!). we then headed to stanly which is a little, reletively relaxed town on the south side of hong kong island. we got the standard noodle soup lunch and then hit the beach, for a swim and a sunbathe which is pretty cool for the beginning of march. after a good nap we headed to aberdeen so pierre could get a snap for his grents who live near aberdeen (in scotland). afterwards we went back to the hostel, took the girls to the noodle place we went to the night before and had an early night - if u know what i mean ;) (as if...)

on thursday after moving hostels cos we couldnt keep our beds WE WENT TO DISNEYLAND. it was alright...

that night however we went in search of hong kong night life. we found the bar street in central called lan kwai fong, unfortunately every bar was either too pricey, too snobby or too tragic, so we headed to wan chai (where pierre watched the arsenal) to try and catch spurs which was on at 4.05 in the morning. luckily we were in the kebab district so we chillaxed with some falafel. there was ONLY ONE showing the game, and they were playing very loud latin music, so we got a taxi home.

the next day we wanted to do the museums -which all close at 6pm, but we slept for like 11 hours and woke up at 3 in the afternoon and only did one - the hong kong museum of history which gave us the story of hong, from the bg bang all the way through to when the british left in 1997. unfortunately cos we were so late the last 2 out of 8 sections of the museum (basically the interesting parts) we missed out on.

that night however was JOKES. thining we were gonna have an early night the people in our hostel persuaded us to go out to wan chai AGAIN. The people in our hostel that really persuaded us to go out - not steve who was making a documentary on the silk route or the canadian girl who was on her way to korea - were luke, rob and katie. they were the first people we met who were our age and who wern't travelling solo - so we got on pretty well.

We knew Wan chai was teh hooker district but we didn't realise it was a bad as we would find out. We went to a club called fenwicks and after we got in we realised that half the clientèle were old men and the other half were phillipino prosies. A wicked cover band came on playing cheesy pop from the 80s as well as now. as well as singing along with and blowing kisses to the lead singer (female) we started to take snaps of us all grinding up against the old men while they were trying to get the whore on. pierre started getting it on with katie so me, luke, rob and canadian girl went out to get some beers from the 7eleven. Outside we met some jokes Irish guys who were having a little blow out in Hong kong on their way to Perth to join the gold rush literally leaving everything back home in Ireland to start a new life in Western Australia. Back in the club i decided to get my groove on and try and get some asian. my drunken mind was thinking - 'ok, most of the old men have left so therefore most of the hookers have left, maybe there might be some actual chinese girls here'.... anyway, about 15 minutes later i think i find one start dancing, grinding etc one thing leads to another... meanwhile, pierre and katie go back, rob, luke and canadian girl go back and i am officially lone clubbing. at this point the girl turns round and goes where u from? i say London, what part of hong Kong are u from? nonono she says , phillipines - MANILLA! i swear at that point i just picked up my jacket and walked out the club. the tube didnt open for another hour so i just went and chilled out with some falafel. got back to my room to see pierre's bony arse in the air, clothed thank god. i kicked the two of them out and got some kip.

Morning after we went fo breakfast in Big John's cafe where i had SCARBLED EGGS ON TOAST - heaven. afterwards we went to Lantau to see the po lin monastry and the big buddha next to it, it made me feel quite religious and i even got my prayer on, one for my Neu-Buddhism group no doubt. We got there via the ngong ping 360 which is a cable car that goes over the top of the biggest mountain in hong kong (934m) after crossing the sea - just a little bit impressive. That night we went out with luke rob and kate to watch liverpool newcastle, rob being a liverpool fan, and luke a newcastle fan. newcastle lost 3-0...

If we stayed another night in hong kong we would have probably gone to see david beckham and LA Galaxy play the South Asia XI but we went to Macau instead.