

...as she indicated the house boats i asked her where she lived. she waved at a pink block of flats we were chugging past! :)
we caught the recommended double decker bus for the return and were whipped back to the star ferry through a modern tunnel and along flashy roads past even flashier shops...the differing faces of hong kong island.
back to the temple street market in the evening to eat at a pavement cafe at lou's insistence. i looked at the dirty table, dirty plastic glasses, rice bowls, chopsticks, pavement....and asked my tummy's forgiveness! lou's salted fried prawns and my steamed garlic shrimps were superb and the chinese beer got my thumbs up too! :) and my tummy stayed put...so far so good!
today i sought out the nearest temple to the goddess of the sea and enjoyed a tranquil fifteen minutes away from the bedlam that is the nathan road. then we walked to the kowloon park and enjoyed the cool under the trees, the turtles and goldfish in their pools and the birds in the aviary. we needed that as en route lou had stopped to buy a lens and flash unit and we would be there still if the manager had had his way. he started at 3,500 hong kong dollars and ended up at 10 pounds!
as we couldn't make macau i found the macau restaurant (lonely planet again) and had an intersting lunch of garlic bread (yum), seafood portuguese style (lou) and vegetables portuguese style (me). the seafood was a sort of fish pie, yummy. my veg. was heavy on the broccoli and cabbage! :)
pit stop at the hotel then off to the jade market and the ladies market. i tell you, you can shop till you drop in this place and eat western. i have to admit we ate in mcdos in aberdeen - i yearned for a sarnie! and this afternoon we hit starbucks for iced coffee and juice. though it looks like local again tonight. the bags are packed and lou has bought a new bag for the new enlarged set of camera equipment! and we have our passports back with our chinese visas (who'd a thunk we needed double entry visas when hong kong is chinese?). they've stuck my recent photo in it. presumably decided i've changed a lot in the last nine years. aged!
tomorrow off to shanghai in a four berth- a new experience again. the agent tried to buy all four berths but no go. as lou says, we can't fart! let's hope the others don't either! :)
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