Day Twenty-nine – A Damp Hong Kong

We awoke this morning to see a cruise ship,”Rotterdam”, sailing past the window. It seems we can’t get away from the nautical theme this holiday.  Unfortunately the weather  today was pretty poor with fog and drizzle for most of the day, this meant that we really couldn’t do much sight seeing, so spent the day exploring the area around the hotel.

The Intercontinental is brilliantly located on Kowloon overlooking the harbour and Hong Kong island and most of the sights  are within walking distance.  Along the harbour front is the Avenue of the Stars,HK’s answer to the Hollywood walk of Fame, consisting of handprints of many famous Chinese actors. Like the literary walk in Sydney I didn’t know many of the artists excepting , of course , Bruce Lee. (No mention of Hong Kong Phooey though!). These two adjoining plaques amused us.

Shopping is what HK does best and within easy reach of the hotel are several malls including Harbour City , the largest one in Hong Kong. These include all the top-end stores that you would expect alongside some local variants. In addition Kowloon boasts several markets selling designer bags, watches and clothing which if you’re lucky may be genuine.In fact something for everyone and we spent the day looking at most of them. The only downside are the touts on each street corner trying to entice you to tailors or fake watch shops.

Just to show that we do read the comments that you post, firstly for Oliver ,here is the TV and sound system (i-pod not included).

And secondly to Rosemary, the hotel room is fantastic especially the marble bathroom and the marvellous view, but unless you are prepared to spend the children’s inheritance it is better to eat and drink elsewhere.(for example breakfast £28 +10% service charge and that’s not all you can eat!!!!!) Make sure that you stipulate a harbour view room on a high floor if possible, you will be disappointed if you don’t. Tonight we are off to Starbucks to post the blog(20 minutes free wi-fi versus £15 in the hotel!).