First Stage of the Journey Completed

Here we are - arrived in Hong Kong yesterday at about 5pm in the afternoon HK time. The flight was great,cannot recommend Air New Zealand highly enough, good flight, good food, comfy seats plenty of room ...last night we took a wander around Central and had some food in Pacific Place in Zen before a good nights sleep.

TOday we took the ferry and wandered around Kowloon, discovered a funny little market where we bought some Chinese New Year decorations ( I also managed to buy some pretty little pieces of paper, had no idea what they were until the woman behind the counter at the Armani Exchange told us that they are the pieces of paper that the CHinese burn at funerals to ensure the prosperity of the dead!!! Oops well I thought they were pretty! ) We had Dim Sum for lunch and tonight we are meeting another couple who are also on the way to Guangzhou at the Peninsula Hotel for a drink. Peninsula is probably the flashiest hotel in Hong Kong - it recently bought 14 Rolls Royce Phantoms for use by their guests - not sure we will look the part as we have not really packed the right gear to wear at a place like that !

Anyway we booked our tickets for Guangzhou this afternoon, we are leaving for China at 2 20 by train that way we hope to see some of China...