Hong Kong - Handover Day

It’s been a while since I posted something here. Luckily Catherine has kept up the posting and kept you up to date.

Friday was a holiday and although we had tried to book to go to a few different places we had left it a little too late and there was either no spaces left or it was extremely over priced. We ended up deciding to stay around the locality and tick a few more boxes on the must do things around Hong Kong.

On Thursday we decided to go to Stanley Market on the other side of Hong Kong Island. We got up had breakfast and took a taxi down to the bus terminal. We caught the bus and were lucky enough to get seats on the top level right at the front. The ride was about 40 minutes and took us up and over the island. It was amazing to see that all the way to the top of the mountain there were huge tower blocks built.

Once we started heading down towards Stanley on the other side it was amazing to see the beaches and scenery change. It really felt like we were on a completely different island all together. We got down to Stanley got off the bus and proceeded to the market.

The market was similar to what I was expecting. There was a lot of people and tons of market stalls a lot of which were selling the same line of products. We spent some dollars on the obligatory local souvenirs such as chop sticks and silk pyjamas.

We went for lunch on the recommendation of a friend to a pace called the Boat House. It was just across the road from the beach and we ate in the restaurant on the first floor and the view across to the water was nearly as good as the food was.

We got a Taxi back home for about £7 and spent the rest of the day just hanging around home.