Greatings from the Top of Hong Kong

Well its another wet, cloudy and humid day in HK, but that aint stopping us!! We went to Stanley market yesterday on the south of HK Island, and wandered round the market, then went to the 'Smugglers Inn', because they sold Cider, and tom was starting to get the shakes as he hadn't had any in over a week!! As tom said the hotel is amazing, so amazing that we so comfortable this morning, that we accidentally slept in until midday!! ooops!! Today we took the star ferry back over to HK Island, and went up this massive escalator, that takes about 15mins in total if you stand on it (which we did - lazy buggers that we are!!) Tom informs me as we type that he has just recieved his 1st mozzy bite!!! He should have taken his garlic pills!! Luckily i have none as yet, but i still should be taking the garlic. Were on the peak now. It is actually nice and cool up here on the roof! Its the lowest out door temp we have experienced int he last week or so! Were on our way back down now. Were gonna check out Mong Kok for shopping - we're both after new cameras and it seems pretty cheap here. Then we are heading for the fireworks this eve. Should be good, but not having a heavy one tonight as have to be at the airport for 9am tomoro morning!! Best be off! Next update will probably be from Oz!!! Cheerio

Hong Kong!

Hi all. we arrived in Hong Kong late last night, and got to our hotel about 1am. It was still really hot at that time of night (31 degrees), and pretty humid. We couldn't belive it when we got to the hotel- it was like the ritz! marble floors, massive mirrors everywhere etc... its unbelievable! we're staying in Kowloon which is north of the harbour. today we took the star ferry across to hong kong island. may go to a market in a minute, and then up to victoria peak for a view of the skyline. we've managed to get some pictures sorted, and mark is putting them on as i'm writing this. it takes a while to put them on the blogger website, so we'll just put a few on for now, and get some more on later. we'll also put most of them up on facebook, so check out our profiles to have a look later on.

Singapore

In an Apple Store in Singapore, using the free internet! Being gypsys!!!! Stayed in the the YMCA last night, sadly the village people wern't in attendence. We planned to go to the night zoo last night, but we ran out of time so we just grabbed some food and then headed to raffles for a singapore sling!! It was "lubery" (lovely)!! they are a filty bunch of people there tho!! they all seemed to chuck all the shells of there monkey nuts on the floor!! dirty basterds!!! haha!\
after raffles we planned to get the train back, but we had missed the last one, and then we realised that we had also missed the last bus, and then to add insult to injury it dedided it was time for a mini monsoon!!! it absolutely pissed it down!! there was no way we were walking through that so we got a taxi! anyway, must dash as we are gonna try and get the free singapore airlines city tour, and then get back to the airport for our flight to hong kong this eve!! i think we shall have a few more slings on the plane! oh yeh! the singapore airline stewardesses are absolutley stunning!!! if only easyjet employed them, then easyjet would be amazing!!! and they would have easy stewardesses!!!

hopefully we will up load some pics in hong kong, failing that australia!!! cheerio-la (they say la alot in singapore!!!)

Day 4 in Tokyo

Had abit of a lie in this morning. After last night Tom was hanging a little bit, but thats what you expect when you by very very cheap white wine from 7 Eleven! We went with Peter, Maeve, Elizabeth and Jen (people from our hostel) to try and find this 'Maid Cafe', which involved spanking and feeding - all abit crazy Japanese, but it was quite busy and the queue didnt move for 20mins, so we left there and went to a sushi bar for lunch. After that Jen left the group and then we carried on along to Harajuku, where the streets are crammed with shops and markets and people. on sundays all the girls get dressed up like the gwen steffani girls, so we might try and pop back tomoro. after harajuku the girls decided they needed retail therapy so me, tom and peter went to the Metropolitan Government Buildings and there is an observitory deck. on a good day you can see mount fuji, sadly today was not a 'good day', but got a good view of the city. we then headed back and tom and I headed over to Rappongi, which we both agreed after 5mins we hated it and we wanted to get back on the tube. Literally as soon as we stepped out of the tube station we were being ambushed by big black guys, 'come to my club, i give you free entry, cheep beer and many sexy lady!! it is best deal in all of tokyo!'.....erm no thanks mate! so we got back on the train, forgetting to go to a cash machine, so we had no money to get any food tonight, as we didnt get back from rappongi until midnight, so we had to scrape our pennies together to try and get some food!! we managed in the end, but we are going to treat ourselves to a nice meal tomorrow night as it is our last night in tokyo. anyway, its late and its time to go to bed!

Day 3 of 87

Got up pretty early this morning, were thinking of going to Disney land with some people who are in our hostel, but they left before we got down. we went to the Sony Building today. was amazing, all the latest tv's, hifi's, laptops, cameras etc. Mum - Sony Bravia's are definatly the way forward, but wait a couple of months, there are some splendid screens on there way over to the UK soon. Had my first ever taste of sushi today, was splendid, although we spent a good hour or 2 trying to find a sushi bar! You'd think they would be on every street corner, but it was so hard to find! Well worth the wait tho! We wern't sure what to do for rest of the afternoon, it has been raining most of the day so that made things more difficult. we decided to head towards a complex with aquarium, and museums etc, but found the main high street that runs through tokyo with all the big department stores so just spent the rest of the noon walking around there. headed back to the hostel about 6ish and went to sleep for about an hour. the jet lag was kicking in this eve, but we got up about9:30 and have had soom food and are having a few drinks. might be off to impress the crowds in a karioke bars soon, failing that we will just continue drinking locally! anyway there is cheap japanese alcohol to be consumed (1.20 for a bottle of wine) so were gonna crack on! hope all the glastonbury lot are enjoying your mud bath!!! cheerio

We've arrived in Tokyo

Finally arrived!! Got to Tokyo at 9:30am tokyo time, then went on an adventure trying to get from the Airport to our hostel! The language barrier was quite a challenge, but at 12:30 we finally got here, although we have been waiting since then for our room, as we're not allowed in until 3. All i want is a shower and to get out of me jeans! It is pretty hot here! One thermometer was reading 37c. We have managed to get though about 4/5 bottles of water each so far. Well i think we are just about to go and get some sleep for an hour or so as we can move to our room now. Met some chap (cant work out if he is a yank or ozzy) but he has invited us to go along with him and some other people to go out tonight....we shall see how we're feeling in a couple of hours or so. Not sure of the plan for tomorrow, but will probably head into the city centre, we're a fair way out from the center and could be near the red light district!! although its only an observation!!! cheerio for now

The morning after the night before!

Just under 26 hours until we jet off. Went down the winch last night for a bit of a knees up! Was a splended time. Thanks to everyone who came along, it was great to see you and have a cider or 5!

Simon and Kate - thank you so much for the t-shirts they look amazing, and i am definatley gonna wear it on the flight (under another garment of clothing, as I want to get up graded and I don't think they will let me into first class wearing jeans and t-shirt!)

Anyway, hopefully most people would have recieved the email to direct you to this blog, so check back in a couple of days time, when hopefully we will have some news and pics from Tokyo! Time to start packing!!!!

Cheerio!

12 Days to Go

Just bought our VIP backpacker cards and sorted out the Visa's for Australia. Still need to book/sort out the internal transport in Australia, and accomodation for Hong Kong and get an idea of where to stay in Fiji.

Time is slowly ticking!!!