wednesday 1st october - day 40 stranded at the airport After 3hours kip on a cold floor, we spend the morning putting on free makeup and trying to get in contact with jet airways. No one at the airport is particularly helpful, and they seem to think email confirmation was enough to board last night. Que another argument and more angry emails. The indian guy from last night is still here too which is really strange.. he is waiting for a friend to arrive appar...

tuesday 30th september - day 40 - hongkong Morning is spent grabbing the last few bits we need before we leave to the airport. Its an emotional goodbye to claudia too. There's no airport bus due to the protests so we have to resort to the metro which is twice the price of the bus. We are denied getting on the flight at check in due to having no outbound flight from india booked.Uh.oh. We argue this is not a visa requirement but are eventually forced to book an o...

monday 29th september - day 39 - hongkong So the protesters made it through the night and everthings still in full flow today. Roads are still blocked with people. Its reported 10,000 protesters are active across the city with about 1,000 at causeway. Subway station entrances in causeway have been barracaded and covered in signs shaming the police, along with requests for peace, democrcy and the right to protest. We manage to get the 40 bus still to stanley bea...

sunday 28th september - day 38 - hongkong Yesterday was spent doing absolutely frigg all.. my hangover was so bad I only moved to eat. Claudia and joe stay in with us too. Joe checks out and flys back to kunming and the junk boat we planned to go on is cancelled so we spend the day doing some general sighseeing around the city. We go up to the golden bauhinia, which is just a golden flower monument at the harbour. We go down to central and the mid level escalato...

friday 26th september - day 36 - hongkong We head, via the metro, to sai kung port with joe to catch a boat over to one of the many beaches on the peninsula. The town is full of restaurants and fishermen setting off or selling catch. We haggle a boat to 43 each return over to hap mun bay beach. The boat ride over takes 20 mins and we stop at sharp island first before our stop. We arrive at hap mun beach afternoon and spend the day there. Its absolutely gorgeou...