After waking up at 4am the first morning, this time slept through til 5am!
Spent the dark hours blogging and doing photo and gps stuff. Eventually Stu got up and we went down for breakfast. We didn't really have a plan for the day which is always dangerous. We struggle to find a good balance when travelling. Stu is happy to take things slowly, but I feel like a caged animal just sitting in a hotel room. The other problem is the rain. I might have gone for a wander by myself, but anything I'd normally want to do requires no rain. So I ended up in a pretty bad frame of mind before we'd even gotten out the door. Which was at 10am again.
Pool in the hotel
View from the hotel pool level
View from the hotel pool level
View from the hotel pool level
Stu did come up with a plan for the day though. We took the MTR all the way out to Kennedy Town. We wandered down to the waterfront (nothing much to see except grey) and around the park.
Happy seats
Inside a Hong Kong MTR train
Green Island
Kennedy Town waterfront
Buildings at Kennedy Town
Kennedy Town waterfront
AGA-200 Acetylene Gas Operated Lantern
Pacman sign
Then we hopped on a tram at the Kennedy Town terminus and rode it alllllll the way along the island to the North Point terminus. This was actually quite fun, and we had the top front window seats the whole way. Took forever though heh.
Interior of the tram upper deck
Catchick St
Des Voeux Road West
Des Voeux Road West
Des Voeux Road West
Western Market building
Des Voeux Road Central
Des Voeux Road Central
Chater Road
Photo by Stu
Queensway
Queensway
Another tram
Photo by Stu
Hennessy Road
Hennessy Road
Looking into the tram in front
Johnston Road
Another tram
Johnston Road
Hennessy Road
Yee Wo Street
Yee Wo Street
Kaz on the tram
Photo by Stu
Causeway Road
King's Road
Chun Yeung Street
Chun Yeung Street
Our tram at North Point
At North Point we had a bit of a wander through the markets, and even found a bakery to get a pineapple bun. It wasn't as fresh as the one we had last year though.
Pineapple bun!
Then things started to fall apart a bit. Stu wanted to go see a movie, which was fine, except it meant we had time pressure. We thought we'd maybe get some lunch first. We went to find Din Tai Fung, but missed where it was so had to backtrack. And it was crowded anyway. And Stu accidentally trod on my achilles tendon so I was in pain. That bad frame of mind came back. We decided to go get the tickets and just find something to eat around the cinema. Except we only had half an hour left at this point, and didn't want to go into any of the restaurants in case they took too long. So thought we'd go outside. Except there were no food places around. Eventually found one but couldn't get any service so we ended up getting a sandwich from 7-Eleven. Yay. I was grumpy which made Stu grumpy so it was just bad all around :(
Olympic stairs at Causeway Bay
Yee Wo Street
Pearl City Mansion shopping centre entrance
Anyway, we went to see The Big Short, about a few groups of fund managers who bet on the housing market crash in 2007-2008. It was really interesting and quite well done.
It was 5pm now, which actually turns out to be a really good time to go to Din Tai Fung - no queues! So we got a few different sorts of dumplings.
Xiao long bao
Stu at Din Tai Fung
Then we walked back to the hotel. It was only about 6pm now. I messaged @Chrispycon and later (after watching a bit of tv) we met up with Chris and Anne and her sister Marg, had an over-priced drink at Guay, then came back to the hotel.