Tuesday May 10th 2016
A 4:00am pickup to start the day – not necessarily at our brightest, but the driver didn’t need a lot of encouragement or response!
One advantage of a really early start is the queues at check-in – non-existent, quickest I have been through, downside is the two and a half hour wait on the other side.
Bad weather meant we were in a holding pattern, and quite late landing.
Between the wait and the flight, managed to read a whole novel – what a luxury.
The train system is integrated straight into the airport – even a ticket booth in the airport. Express train to Kowloon – 2 stops. The trains are clean, quick and vandalism free. Our train ticket also included a free shuttle bus to near the hotel. They even had a lady there with a list of hotels, to tell which of the buses to catch. (Ours was K1 not K9)
Funnily enough, the first thing Annie wanted to do after booking in to the hotel was head to the markets and shops, The concierge said ‘just over that way – next block’. Several blocks later, time to resort to map – a nice lady stopped and asked what we were looking for and pointed us in the right direction to Temple Markets – still several blocks on.
One of the things that does strike me is that Kowloon is that it is no where near as crowded as I would expect, and much cleaner than other places in China we have been to. Hot and steamy, not weather you really want when you are tired and wandering the streets late at night our time.
Dinner was a vegetable curry and a sliced beef dish, but more importantly an icy cold beer.
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After dinner dessert was a sweet bun from Eastwood Bread Top (OK not Eastwood, but the same fare.)
Across from the hotel they are working on a building.
A closer view shows that the scaffolding is bamboo – not for this little black duck!
