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Thursday : sunny
Extremely late leaving the hotel today. After 12:00, not sure why. Anyways with no breakfast included in our $200 per night room, and them charging $20 per person for breakfast, we went looking for a place that was doing lunch instead because it was no longer breakfast time anyway.
We had to walk around for a while before we found anything. Middle of the city, it was lunch time, people rushing around, pushing others out of their way. There were a couple restaurants close to the hotel but there also was a construction site that wasn't music to Kim's ears as it was to mine. That's a lie, they were pile driving, and it was very loud, but it did have a pretty consistent beat, so I guess you could have a jam.
We must of taken a wrong turn down bank alley as well, seriously every high rise building on this road was a bloody bank. Not what we were after right now maybe later.
We headed back up a hill and came across a sign saying noodles, the only sign that wasn't for a 7/11, bakery/cake shop, or a Jap restaurant.
We went inside and it was packed, packed to the rafters. Every suit in the city was getting a feed there. It was very loud too, ha, the construction site was probably quieter. We had to go up three floors to get a table with a spare two chairs. We sat at a table with two other ladies, and they were getting stuck in, looked good what they were having. The food they were eating was not on the menus we had in front of us, under the glass, on top of the table. (We had to look though the glass of the table to see our menus) Ha, and half the table was cover by the other ladies plates. So it could of been but we will never know. We never actually got the proper menu, we saw other people receiving them, after we had ordered though. First ordering attempt was a failure too, silly us we were looking at the high tea menu on the tabletop menu, we missed the small print saying available after 14:30. We eventually ordered successfully and surprise surprise it was wrong when it arrived. Never mind somehow Kim got it sent back and the right meals came back. They sort of got the drinks right Kim wanted a lemon juice she got a lemon tea instead. My satay beef, well I thought I ordered beef, but I may of read the wrong dish off the menu. I may of ordered satay fat, because that's what I got, my bowl was half full of the stuff when I finished eating the noodles. No complaints from Kim. They had a good system for payment though. (I couldn't wait to pay) the waitress prints off a barcode and when your done you scan it a hand over the money easy. $96 HK about $12 AU. Not bad they were big meals.
After lunch we headed for the park, but never got there. Police were out blocking footpaths again. So we doubled back and went to catch the ferry across the river, and suss out some accommodation for tomorrow.
We paid for a ferry token, 25c finally something cheap here. All too late though, the ferry started to pull away by the time we made it further down the terminal ramps. The next ferry was in an hour so we went for the train.
Not expensive either the train $8.50 HK about $1 AU to go two stops over the river to Kowloon. Hong Kong has a subway network system, so we went under the river. Again, a long, well organized, sign posted shuffle through the station got us to the platform. They have two train tracks per line with trains running on both of them, and there's a train every 5 mins, so your unlucky if you have to wait long.
Weird trains, there were no doors between carriages, so we could see all the way to the end the carriages, when we were stationary. When the train was moving the train looked funny, the way it was twisting side to side, up and down.
Once above ground immediately noticed a difference in the the city. The people, there were more, and a lot of Indians, and Arabs too didn't see any over on the island. More lights and signs felt like NY. We went to a recommended guest house, but it was fully booked, their was another one in the same building so we checked it out. For around $40 AU per night we could share the flat with the owner. We thought about it for a total of about 2 seconds. Pass! It looked like her kids have grown up and moved out and she's renting out their old room.
That's enough of guesthouses I'll just have to face it Hong Kong's accommodation is expensive for crap, and really expensive and you don't get breaky. Damn I'm peeed off about no breaky. We booked a hotel $150 AU per night still no breakfast, but at least it's breaky for under $10.
We checked the time and it was time to head back over to the island and catch a tram up to the peak. It's ment to have a good lookout. We caught the train back and walked to the tram station. Ahh yeah to say the line was big is an understatement I saw a sign towards the end of the Que saying Expect a 1.5 hour wait from this point, stuff that.
We just walked back to the hotel and got out of the sweaty clothes still warm here must of been probably 30 degrees today it's just sticky though. We just read some maps before bed.
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