Our original plan was to take the train to Central and then a ferry to Lama for some seafood but the weather was rather cloudy and a bit blowy and Jennifer does not like rocking ships to much and also Wolfgang left the Audi Q7 for our use.
So we decided to go over to the Island by way of multiple extremely large housing estates at 30 and 40 stories high until we reached the Eastern tunnel to the Island. When we lived here in 1975/1989 there was only one tunnel across from to Kowloon to the Island and now there are four. I may have already mentioned the major increase in tunnels, fly overs, tunnels, highways etc has thrown us somewhat as we could always get around very easily but today its also quite to get lost and on a road or in a tunnel going totally the wrong way.
Anyway we went down to Big Wave bay and then on to Shek Ho beach going past the lovely golf course untouched by players just gardeners and arrived in Shek Ho which was pretty much closed as it is winter. From there we drove down the coast commenting in the significant increase in high rise expensive housing where it can cost £ 6k per month for a smallish apartment, wow not good.
We had lunch ins Stanley in the Stanley Cafe which was good and then slowly headed back to the house.
We were not more that half a mile from the house and coming down of the main road having already slowed from 50 kph down to 35 kph when suddenly car stopped responding to the steering wheel unless you used a very strong grip , wow what is happening, No warning lights nothing and then after about two minutes of not knowing what to do a sign came on saying alternator not charging battery!! but now driving very slowly with lots of effort got it back to the house. Had this happened at 70kph on a motorway u would have no chance to control the car and that makes you think.
At about 7.30 pm Wolfgang and Gigig arrived home and we all squeezed in to the Maserati and went to Sai Kung to meet with Andreas and wife for rather a boozy dinner but enjoyable all the same and returning home at around 11.30 so not to bad really.
