Our day around Hong Kong

After breakfast we headed by MTR to Wanchai Computer Store to buy a new battery for our notebook. The current battery will last about 20 minutes before it needs power and so we decided to get one here as it would be cheaper.

We were successful and then left to catch the bus to Stanley Market to do a bit of shopping. The weather at the moment is wet, and very dark with grey skies and not particularly pleasant.

The double-decker bus trip to Stanley is quite exiting and not really great for the faint hearted like Noel. This thing whizzed around corners missing other buses by centimetres and swaying over the very bumpy roads with drops of several hundred feet just by the side of the road.

The walk around Stanley Market brought back pleasant memories for us both as we used to wander round the market on a Sunday with two little children clutching our hands before we went to MacDonald’s. This place has changed a lot since then and is much more professional and also more expensive.

We decided to have a snack at a waterfront café and so we sat down and ordered some fried rice with a view of the Stanley Bay only a removal wagon turned up and blocked the view.

We headed back to town and the Hotel but left again for Causeway Bay area to a restaurant called ‘Milano’ which Noel used when he regularly visited Hong Kong. The food as usual was excellent with ‘Rack of Lamb’ to die for, leaves the rack of lamb at Gianni’s restaurant in Weybridge looking not so good.

A final walk back from the restaurant to the Hotel and we stopped to watch a group of quite middle aged men playing football on a hard and wet surface. We think the Goalkeeper our end was about 80.

Walking through the streets at night with all the coloured lights etc is fascinating and we both look back with pleasure at the years that web lived here.