Hz to hk!!

Up early and so tired, Claire calls us a taxi to the bus stop nearby in wulin square and we wait around for the bus and the other teacher an American called Teressa.
I gave her a call to see a woman nearby answer, a 30ish black woman with a massive bag.
We introduce ourselves and help her to catch the bus, she is definitely not a seasoned traveller!
Checking OK but notice that the flight is actually to shenzhen in china (the home of electronics!!) And knot Hong Kong.
We land in shenzhen and buy a bus ticket to hk. It stops first at the port and we all have to get off and go through immigration getting lots of new stamps in the process. Back on the bus which has sneaked round while we went through an on to Hong Kong!
I even see a sign for lan kwai fong a famous market here but also the name of an awesome Chinese in oxford, will have to go there!! And send a picture to my old work!

We arrived in kawloon, the mainland part of hk and get a taxi down nathan road (awesome!) To ourhotel.

Hk is crazy in that everything is built upwards. 20stories down each side of the street and the ground is a few shops, then a resteraunt maybe, the 3rs floor may be a hairdressers and then another reateraunt above that and then hotels or flats above that, or both! Crazy!
We eventually find a small lift behind a load of small shops and take it to the 11th floor to find the tiny chun king hotel.
This is a tiny 7 bedroom hotel faking a Quater of a floor number 737 nathan road, it was booked by the agency but never designed for foreigners, no English and small but quaint on suite rooms,  and OK priced for a private room in hk.
Chris and I love it and manage eventually to check in. No room key you just ask the owner to lock and unlock the door for you and we pay in advance, which he seems to require! The rooms have Covington around the ceiling with a sky mural, and are just awesome and quirky!
Teressa on the other hand hates it. She wants a western hotel with wifi and room service and English. Chris and I then jump in a taxi with her to a place we thought was our hotel, chin king mansions down nathan road at number 40. We look at a room and is a small serviceable single with en suite and seems OK, but not a patch on ours!
She is still not happy and we retire to Starbucks for her to search online.
While she searches we notice we were stood under a holiday inn! We go and get a quote of 1600hkd for 2 night, 80a night, pretty pricey (especially when we have to pay all our fees and get reimbursed next month by our company! Chris and I are close to tthe wire, I am using my inheritance to float us both until I can pay itback in when we get the money back)
Also there is a Max for the visa trip the agency will pay of 200pounds so a pricey hotel is not a good idea!

Teressa won't pay that price and gets more moody and upset rather than sorting it out and choosing where to go, even if it is less than ideal, gotta sleep somewhere!!

Unfortunately neither of my phones work here so I can't call the aagency so in the end we give her a few options and leave her to it having done the best we can!

We called the agency and found out the forms had been delayed so Todd the other teacher had to get an even later flight so we can't do an visa things today and so we will be forced to stay another day in hk and push everythingg back! Awesome!

Chris and I walk around kawloon and see the hk sky line over the bay, the sea mist means you can't even see the tops of the towers on the other side of the river-width bay!
We walk all the way up nathan road and stop in at our hostel in early evening to rest our feet. Then a little lie down, then the last few nights catch up and I wake up to Chris and Todd at my door at 9pm.
Todd is an older guy, american, 50 years old and a traveller and really nice.
He gives us the forms we need and we chat and trade stories. We make a plan to meet near the visa place tomorrow as he fancies another cheaper hostel and he leaves. He still has teressas form as without a phone or internet we have no way to contact her! Hopefully we will catch up tomorrow in the visa place.

Chris and I walk out past the goldfish market, hundreds of fish in small bags for sale, goldfish, catfish, turtles etc etc! And find a small cheap local resteraunt for some great local food before stumbling back to the hotel and bed ready for an early start tomorrow!

Hk is much more western and also English friendly than china, it seems great but with so much English help and so many foreigners it really looses a lot of its charm. I licensing the only foreigners in lingxi ans this just feels like London on steroids, not a crazy amazing adventure! Still cool though!