Travel Diary
09/07/06
After finishing packing that morning, we left at about 10, which was abit later than planned, if there was a plan :/ anyway, we got to birmingham international airport, checked in, had some food, said good bye to the parents and went to board to plane, fairly standard, same with the flight, got to frankfurt waited boarded, got on another plane for the long part of the flight, 10 and a half hours :/. flight was fairly regular nothing spectacular. We decided to take(steal)some of the small pillows from the plane...so we stuffed 3 of them in our bags for our travels around China just before we got off. We landed went to our flat in Fan Ling, then went to get our visas in Wan Chai and had lunch on the way at Maxims in Mong Kok. Afterwards we went to see a tree. The golden one which represents Hong Kong on the flag. twas boring. Then we went to Mong Kok to practice our haggling skills and buy some cheap tack. I got a bag(start price $135, bought for $70(grr Yan lost me $5), some sunglasses which are already broken ($89->$33), a hole punch which punches cows($10->$7.33). After that we went home. It was quite a long day, granted it was two days merged into one 40 hour long day. it is now 2am on the 11th. good night.
11/07/06
We woke up at 12 today. We had a very nice meal at the restaurant in the plaza next door. We went to buy our train tickets. We walked around Kowloon park, saw some birds. Ate somewhere in Tsim Sha Tsui, not great but oh well. Pang went home and me and Yan rushed to the avenue of stars to see the symphony of lights. We only just caught the end of it after getting lost with confusing signs. Then we went home. fun. Overall, a much shorter day.
After finishing packing that morning, we left at about 10, which was abit later than planned, if there was a plan :/ anyway, we got to birmingham international airport, checked in, had some food, said good bye to the parents and went to board to plane, fairly standard, same with the flight, got to frankfurt waited boarded, got on another plane for the long part of the flight, 10 and a half hours :/. flight was fairly regular nothing spectacular. We decided to take(steal)some of the small pillows from the plane...so we stuffed 3 of them in our bags for our travels around China just before we got off. We landed went to our flat in Fan Ling, then went to get our visas in Wan Chai and had lunch on the way at Maxims in Mong Kok. Afterwards we went to see a tree. The golden one which represents Hong Kong on the flag. twas boring. Then we went to Mong Kok to practice our haggling skills and buy some cheap tack. I got a bag(start price $135, bought for $70(grr Yan lost me $5), some sunglasses which are already broken ($89->$33), a hole punch which punches cows($10->$7.33). After that we went home. It was quite a long day, granted it was two days merged into one 40 hour long day. it is now 2am on the 11th. good night.
11/07/06
We woke up at 12 today. We had a very nice meal at the restaurant in the plaza next door. We went to buy our train tickets. We walked around Kowloon park, saw some birds. Ate somewhere in Tsim Sha Tsui, not great but oh well. Pang went home and me and Yan rushed to the avenue of stars to see the symphony of lights. We only just caught the end of it after getting lost with confusing signs. Then we went home. fun. Overall, a much shorter day.
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