Hong Kong and Singapore 2016

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Day 5 - Monday 18 January - Peng Chau

(Blogging on the same day for a change!)

Best sleep in so far - 6:50am!

Also! Sun!!

View from the hotel pool floor

Pool at the hotel

Got ready just a little bit earlier, but then we tried to find the laundry man we went to last time, but he was gone, so called Chris and he recommended another laundry so we went to that instead - and it worked out a lot cheaper - only $61HKD for our bag of washing. So it was about 9:45 before we managed to get to the station. And of course that meant we missed the 10am ferry, so took our time and caught the 10:45 ferry.

It had already started clouding over by then too. But it was still a nice ferry ride out to Peng Chau. There's not a lot to see and do on the island. We did go on the "northern" walk around the edge and middle of the northern half of the island. We debated doing the "southern" walk as well but we were a bit tired (had already done 10000 steps!) so didn't. Hacked a few portals then caught the ferry back to Central.

Sea Success arriving

Hong Kong Island buildings

Kowloon buildings

Hong Kong Island buildings

Welcome to Peng Chau sign

Tin Hau Temple, Peng Chau

Kam Fa Temple, Peng Chau

Kam Peng Estate - we got stuck in this trying to make our way north

Tai Lei island

Pier at Tai Lei island

Boats in the harbour

Pier at Tai Lei island

Beach on Tai Lei island

Beach on Peng Chau island

Looking east towards Hong Kong

Jackfruit growing on Peng Chau

Farm on Peng Chau

Beach on eastern side of Peng Chau

Looking east towards Hong Kong

Pagoda on Peng Chau

Peng Chau Ferry Pier

Kowloon buildings and Discovery Bay 19

Hong Kong Island buildings

Our ferry back from Peng Chau - Sea Splash

At Central we walked up to go to Dim Sum Square.. CRISPY PORK BUNS!!!! So awesome. Also some turnip cakes and beef and parsley rice rolls.

Pan-fried turnip cakes at Dim Sum Square

Minced beef and parsley steamed rice rolls

Crispy pork buns!!

Then caught a tram back to the hotel, arriving around 4pm.

Des Voeux Road Central

Trams on Yee Wo Street

On the way to the laundry to pick up our clothes, Stu started getting a migraine. So back to the hotel to dose him up on painkillers, and I washed some underwear. Another nice thing about this hotel - even though they don't have a guest laundry - they have big bathroom sinks, with plugs, and a retractable clothes line in the shower. Epic win!

Then I met up with Chris and Anne and Bronte and Marg and we went to Din Tai Fung for dinner. Got some shrimp xiao long bao, some mushroom dumplings, some spicy shrimp dumplings, a noodle with peanut sauce dish, some greens and some wonton soup. All delicious.

Dinner at Din Tai Fung

Headed back to Chris and Anne's, and we went up to the roof and saw the Symphony of Lights from their rooftop - just lovely. Then borrowed some lightweight pants off Anne, because I stoopidly forgot my own lightweight long pants - and I wanted them for Singapore evenings. So that was good.

Walkway in Victoria Park

Symphony of Lights from Chris and Anne's building

Then picked up some snackages for the sweetie's dinner and back to the hotel.

Day 3 - Saturday 16 January - Hong Kong Island

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

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

Western Market building

Des Voeux Road Central

Chater Road
Photo by Stu

Queensway

Another tram
Photo by Stu

Hennessy Road

Looking into the tram in front

Johnston Road

Another tram

Johnston Road

Hennessy Road

Yee Wo Street

Kaz on the tram
Photo by Stu

Causeway Road

King's Road

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.