Mad dogs and Englishmen

As well as going out in the noonday sun (to buy a vaguely repulsive sandwich from Marks & Spencer) I went to the noonday gun, for the first time in my life. I guess paying homage to Noel Coward is either something you do as soon as you arrive in Hong Kong, or else you put it off for three years.

Things to do in Hong Kong When You're Skint #2: Tram ride

May 1st is a holiday in Hong Kong. This year, it falls on a Sunday. When it's on a Saturday, the magnaminous and kind government does a sort of double-or-quits manouvre, and you go straight to work on the Monday, but this time round, everyone got Monday off, so we celebrated by taking the tram from one end of the line to the other.

Hong Kong Wetlands

Today as an antidote for yesterday's combination of drinking and yelling 'queef!' at innocent bystanders, my fiancee and I went to the Hong Kong Wetlands park.