Hong Kong Day 1 - in 10 Points
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dangermousieTotally in love!
1. Very very organized and clean. Since last Asian city for us was chaotic messy Bangkok, this is rather a shock.
2. Our hotel is very swanky and with an amazing harbor view. With our rooms we get to go to some sort of 'executive' lounge (even though neither of us is an executive). They have free breakfast and champaigne (not at the same time) and it's all very swank - I feel a little out of place and half expect them to count the spoons when we are gone :P
3. The city is GORGEOUS. Enormous buidlings (my mind tries to shrink them) and huge misty mountain peaks behind them.
4. I have never seen so many shiny shiny ads anywhere. Short attention span girl loves them.
5. A lot of swanky stores, some of them with velvet ropes and people waiting to get in because to have a crowd would be oh so terribly downmarket.
6. Yummiest food ever. And tea so strong that I think my eyeballs are still vibrating.
7. It's sad. Have reached an age where when men whisper in my ear it's not sweet nothings but "bags, shoes, watches." Alas.
8. We took the ferry from Kowloon to Hong Kong. It was glorious.
9. We climbed halfway up the Peak. It was a very swanky residential area with apartment buildings with modest names like "Olympian Terrace" and "Tycoon Plaza". Amazing narrow steep sidewalks, almost nobody around except for professional dog walkers and uniformed security guards for the apartment buildings. So gorgeous. Also made me realize I am so out of shape. Mmmm, I'll do something about it after I eat some more dumplings.
10. If I see one more ad for a movie called "Hot Summer Days", I will scream. They are everwhere. I think the movie is stalking us.
1. Very very organized and clean. Since last Asian city for us was chaotic messy Bangkok, this is rather a shock.
2. Our hotel is very swanky and with an amazing harbor view. With our rooms we get to go to some sort of 'executive' lounge (even though neither of us is an executive). They have free breakfast and champaigne (not at the same time) and it's all very swank - I feel a little out of place and half expect them to count the spoons when we are gone :P
3. The city is GORGEOUS. Enormous buidlings (my mind tries to shrink them) and huge misty mountain peaks behind them.
4. I have never seen so many shiny shiny ads anywhere. Short attention span girl loves them.
5. A lot of swanky stores, some of them with velvet ropes and people waiting to get in because to have a crowd would be oh so terribly downmarket.
6. Yummiest food ever. And tea so strong that I think my eyeballs are still vibrating.
7. It's sad. Have reached an age where when men whisper in my ear it's not sweet nothings but "bags, shoes, watches." Alas.
8. We took the ferry from Kowloon to Hong Kong. It was glorious.
9. We climbed halfway up the Peak. It was a very swanky residential area with apartment buildings with modest names like "Olympian Terrace" and "Tycoon Plaza". Amazing narrow steep sidewalks, almost nobody around except for professional dog walkers and uniformed security guards for the apartment buildings. So gorgeous. Also made me realize I am so out of shape. Mmmm, I'll do something about it after I eat some more dumplings.
10. If I see one more ad for a movie called "Hot Summer Days", I will scream. They are everwhere. I think the movie is stalking us.
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Date: 2010-02-15 01:37 pm (UTC)(Yummy food.....)
Have fun, Emma
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Date: 2010-02-15 04:10 pm (UTC)hagrid :)
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Date: 2010-02-16 03:00 am (UTC)I went up the peak so many times - loved it!
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Date: 2010-02-16 05:16 pm (UTC)I did that when I was 13 and with my parents and we visited Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong. HK is fun but Singapore was my favorite. Although I'd love to go to HK for New Years.
LOL and now I'm intrigued about Hot Summer Days. I kind of love/hate intrusive advertisements.
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