Kowloon, Hong Kong

Love love love Hong Kong! It's so westernised yet so different. Not majorly I suppose, just little things - if people are ill they wear a mask so as not to spread germs. There are hand sanitizing facilities everywhere. Everywhere is spotless. We saw some one on their hands and knees today cleaning a drain cover down a side street. Really?? Who's even going to see it? There is wifi literally everywhere, and I do mean everywhere. On the buses, in the telephone boxes etc. In the cinema they have something called popcorn shakers were you choose what flavour you want on your popcorn and then you just bung it on. Effectively a big salt shaker. I put apple cinnamon on mine mmmmm yummy! I then ate the whole thing in the lobby. I usually manage to wait until the Orange ads at least. We went to see Avengers. Sorry people, I thought it was a sack of shit!

An update on Lee's "diet", he got burger and chips in Colombo airport before we left. How long did he last...4 hours??? I absolutely hated him in the airport. He was fast asleep on the cold floor for about 3 hours and I was just sitting there wide awake. Think I managed an hour but I was shattered. I was so jealous.

As soon as we arrived in Hong Kong we got the bus to Tsim sha tsui in Kowloon. We hadn't booked anywhere in advance, but we'd researched a couple places in this area. We went to Chung King Mansions which is a building with 3 blocks with market type stalls and shops at the bottom and many hostels and apartments in the 20 or so floors above. It is a proper dive, just how I expected it. Small, dark, smelly rooms, battered furnishings, cockroaches etc. Love it though. Our building is where all the immigrants live. Most of the hostels seem to be run by Africans. The owner of ours, Samson, was saying that they come over and marry Chinese women to get visas. He says, "It's good, can't talk much because she no speak English, but sex is good", quality Samson.

After finding a place to crash for a couple of hours, it was time to wake up and go and watch Champions League Final. It started at 2.45am here, 7 hours ahead. Found it straight away, loads of places were showing it. This city doesn't sleep so everywhere was packed. Can't believe Chelsea the jammy bastards! 6am we got to bed. We've become nocturnal out here now. Nowhere closes 'til midnight so it's good, you don't feel like you've wasted a day when you roll out of bed at 2pm.

I love the fashion out here. I love weird clothes but I'd feel uncomfortable wearing them in England because every one is so judgemental. If I think the fashion here is good I bet I'm going to love Japan. I'm expecting it to be bonkers.

We got our visas for China sorted today, we pick them up on Saturday then we're going to leave for China that day or Sunday, depending on whether we can be arsed. Tomorrow we're going to get the ferry across to Hong Kong island and have a couple of days there :)