cool weather, amazing public transportation, and hong kong island

april 21st weekend- hong kong island, china

the day i arrived back in singapore from my home leave dirk was called out to china. so after a quick doctors appointment and tucking me into bed to recover from a 24 hour journey and 13 hour time difference, dirk left for shekou, china.

shekou is only a ferry ride away from hong kong island, therefore dirk flew into hong kong and took the ferry to shekou. i was lucky enough to meet him in hong kong after his work was done for the weekend. we ended up staying on the kowloon side of hong kong and not the island side but transportation between all the islands was very easy and fun at times.

the hong kong island side all light up at night

busy kowloon side

we stayed at the lux manor hotel on the kowloon side. neither of us had much information about hong kong so we took a gamble on location and hotel. this was the lobby of our hotel, i liked the super modern decor but dirk thought it reminded him of alice and wonderland... the whole hotel was like this...

the lux manor hotel; kowloon, china

it always amazes me how even fastfood is the same half way around the world- dirk is excited can you tell?

typical asian meat market, mind you this is not refrigerated at all, open to the elements. they also do not refrigerate their eggs in asia.

this is how the weather was the whole weekend, a mixture of cool, humid, rainy- it was much welcomed from hot, steamy singapore.

we found a great pub near stanely market, smugglers inn, we were thrilled when we saw they served coors light! the pub was great, and a very laid back atmosphere.

all the different currency on the walls- notice all the $1 USD

there was a light show across the harbour from either side every night- we did the star ferry tour and saw the lights from both sides

along with custom seafood you can get just about anything custom made, handbags, shoes, clothes. dirk got some shirts and pants made and i bought some shoes. we also found some great fresh water pearl earring for really cheap! we loved hong kong and are currently trying to find a way to move there.... hmmm