Well, nothing much happened in Hong Kong. The original plan was for Cliff to leave Liam and I after a couple of days and return to the UK for the marathon. Liam and I were going to amuse ourselves for five nights (cinema, ice skating, schoolwork) and then do some touristy things with Cliff if he was up it when he came back.
Well, we did get out the airport to see Cliff off, but the flight was cancelled (you may have heard something about an ash cloud, I think it's been on the news), he missed the marathon and we spent our time in Hong Kong eating, sleeping very late and trying not to spend too much money in the thousands of shiny malls. The weather wasn't great, although the day we picked to take the tram up to the Peak at least wasn't foggy. Cliff did manage to fit in a few training runs around the inside track at the Happy Valley Racecourse - joined by Liam on his last run. Cliff's signed up for the Rotorua marathon on 1st May and Liam and I bought new trainers as we've signed up for the Rotorua 5k on the same day.
We stayed in Hong Kong's small scale equivalent of London's Barbican, Youth Square, a mix of hotel, theatre, restaurants and studios. It was handily right next to a metro station. They had an exhibition on on the lower level of graffited giant bears, a bit like the Kid Robot ones that Liam likes.
On Maid Sunday we ventured out to see them at first hand. There are thousands of maids working in Hong Kong, many of them from the Phillipines and Sunday is their only day off, so they meet up close to metro stations and bring food and games to enjoy their free time together.
We stayed in Hong Kong's small scale equivalent of London's Barbican, Youth Square, a mix of hotel, theatre, restaurants and studios. It was handily right next to a metro station. They had an exhibition on on the lower level of graffited giant bears, a bit like the Kid Robot ones that Liam likes.
On Maid Sunday we ventured out to see them at first hand. There are thousands of maids working in Hong Kong, many of them from the Phillipines and Sunday is their only day off, so they meet up close to metro stations and bring food and games to enjoy their free time together.
Sad to say, we were all rather pleased to be leaving Hong Kong. We found it a bit claustrophobic, which might have something to do with our lack of motivation to explore or do lots of touristy things. We're definitely not in any rush to go back there. Our plans for Japan have had to change as a result of the ash cloud too, as our Japan rail tickets were sitting in Lancing waiting to be collected by Cliff. And you can't buy them in Japan, so we couldn't buy replacements. So instead of touring around for 16 days, we're going to spend 4 nights in Tokyo instead and then it's off to New Zealand a bit earlier than planned!
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