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.

Riding tandems in Hong Kong

Today I had the day off, so I was rudely awaken at eight by a thunderstorm, and then rudely awaken again at nine by another thunderstorm, and rudely awaken for a third time at 9:30 by m girlfriend telling me that I couldn't be a slugabed. And then it was off to Tai Wai to hire a tandem.

Visiting Stanley

Today we struggled out of bed late, and took a taxi over to Stanley.

Stanley holds a quasi-mystical status for most Hong Kongers - it's this curious place on the other side of the island, sometimes thought of but infrequently visited.  Possibly because the journey there is something of an odyssey - an eighty dollar taxi ride from Happy Valley with most of it on a long winding road, stuck behind either a bus or a cement mixer, trundling slowly down the coast.

But when you arrive, there's a cornucopia of delights awaiting you.