We had been told we needed 2 days and all the visa information said two days but when we dropped it off they said only one, we thought this a bit strange but thought we would give it a shot, we arrived fashionably late with no queue, straight up to the top, again no payment queue (unlike last times huge queue) and straight to collect, 10 minutes and 50gbp later we had our visa! At 50gbp it was cheaper for a rush service z visa in hongkong than a slow tourist visa in the uk!
After a very painless visa experience we went to a local place for a damn tasty breakfast burger with real bacon and curly fries, part ouf our very unhealthy goodbye to western food. After that we walked down to the harbour and across to kowloon, took pictures on nathan road, (awesome), chris argued for half an hour over painting and i got offered drugs. i Also did some chinese homework in a pacific coffee over an iced coffee.
Chris was sick of kowloon by that point so we got the star ferry back over to the island, mooched around some more and then found that hongkong has a cinema! This cinema had a single showing of the new batman and so we managed to get tickets to see it, a film we really wanted to see in the cinema! We got tickets for 4 and so went and bought some kettle chips and snacks before the film.
The snacks made me laugh as for two drinks and a popcorn if we got the "couple meal deal" we got a free hotdog so we did that. Haha. The film was awesome and although a bit pricey, a lot easier than finding english movies in china, often a turn up and guess affair!
After the film chris went to his second guzheng lesson and i spent an hour in starbucks doing some more chinese, chris came out of the lesson really buzzing, he had learnt how to play happy birthday!, and i started a really tough chinese chapter on job interviews, tough but pretty relevant for me.
After starbucks we went back over to kowloon and got a kebab in the eastern district, again tasty, before back and bed after a very unhealthy day!
After a very painless visa experience we went to a local place for a damn tasty breakfast burger with real bacon and curly fries, part ouf our very unhealthy goodbye to western food. After that we walked down to the harbour and across to kowloon, took pictures on nathan road, (awesome), chris argued for half an hour over painting and i got offered drugs. i Also did some chinese homework in a pacific coffee over an iced coffee.
Chris was sick of kowloon by that point so we got the star ferry back over to the island, mooched around some more and then found that hongkong has a cinema! This cinema had a single showing of the new batman and so we managed to get tickets to see it, a film we really wanted to see in the cinema! We got tickets for 4 and so went and bought some kettle chips and snacks before the film.
The snacks made me laugh as for two drinks and a popcorn if we got the "couple meal deal" we got a free hotdog so we did that. Haha. The film was awesome and although a bit pricey, a lot easier than finding english movies in china, often a turn up and guess affair!
After the film chris went to his second guzheng lesson and i spent an hour in starbucks doing some more chinese, chris came out of the lesson really buzzing, he had learnt how to play happy birthday!, and i started a really tough chinese chapter on job interviews, tough but pretty relevant for me.
After starbucks we went back over to kowloon and got a kebab in the eastern district, again tasty, before back and bed after a very unhealthy day!
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