I am staying with my cousin Jess and her husband Mike (“the pilot”) and son Charlie (18 months) at their apartment on Bowen Road in Midlevels, Hong Kong Island. It is one of the older lower rise Hong Kong apartments with really high ceilings.
The View from the apartment of Hong Kong.
I spent Wednesday morning with Mike and Charlie at the beach at “deep water bay”. Charlie recently injured his finger in 'the escalator' so has not been able to swim until now. He was very excited to be at the beach again.
Deep Water Bay... need i say more.
Mike and Charlie on the beach
Charlie telling me about the trucks over there
That afternoon I went exploring Hong Kong. I ended up spending most of my time over at Soho and the escalator (near Jess and Mike’s old place).
Hong Kong escalator. The world longest at 800 metres. A perfect place for people watching.
While watching people ride the escalator I made friends with this Dutch guy, Ruben, who had been working in New Zealand for the past 4 months and was waiting for a flight home after KLM cancelled his flight the day before. We spent the afternoon together on a Hong Kong pub crawl and meet up with Jess for dinner in one of the small lane ways called "Rat Alley" in Lan Kwai Fong. Mike was flying to Frankfurt that night so Jess went home to say good bye and I hit the nightclubs of Wan Chai. Wasn’t a massive night but made a few new friends and was home in bed by 12.
Off to the Russian embassy this morning. Wish me luck!
1 comment:
Sounds like fun Ness. Henry's sitting on my knee enjoying the photos although he wanted to see Charlie's hand. Kids love gruesome things!
Thanks for the photos. We've never been to Jess and Mike's apartment so it was good to see some shots of the view.
Take care from all of the Blayneys!
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