Our flight from Boston to Hong Kong was fine, but very long — 15 1/2 hrs. We went up and over the North Pole. Rick slept pretty well but Ann and I didn’t. There were a number of kids on the plane including 7 year old, Ella, and her 3 year old brother, Alex. Ella asked me about my favorite color as she walked by. We proceeded to play pretend with her dolls and play games on her iPad. Eventually Alex got in on the fun. We helped each other pass the time.
We were easily able to get a cab from the airport to our hotel. Our cab driver told us all about Hong Kong and entertained us the whole way. His English was stilted, but still very good he ha d great sence of humor.
We are staying at the Garden View Hotel in Central which I highly recommend. (Thanks Doug and Nancy for the recommendation). It’s a great location at a great price. The rooms aren’t fancy but they are very nice and very clean. To top it off there is a top notch grocery store around the corner, great bread, good sliced meats and cheese from all over the world .
We got checked in and relaxed for a couple of hours. I took a short nap. We agreed the next three days we want to see some of the city, but not try to see everything — we want to give ourselves the time we needed to get through our jet lag. We left the hotel around 11 and walked towards the water. We went to lunch at a restuarant which serves Hong Kong style Chinese food, recommended by the hotel and Fodor’s as authentic. Lots of locals, really different and very good.
After lunch we had a coffee (we desperately needed the caffeine) and walked around the harbor, exploring some of our options for the rest of our time here. We walked over to the convention center which is architecturally interesting and entirely enormous. Here are pictures from our walk.
Caffiene jolt fading we way back toward the hotel. En route we stopped at a grocery store and got some food for a picnic dinner (we didn’t think we would be very hungry after our big lunch) and for breakfast tomorrow morning. We bought several bottles of water as well as two bottles of wine. The groceries were quite heavy and the return route to our hotel quite steep, so we took a cab back to the hotel — best $3 US we could have spent!
We relaxed for a couple of hours but we didn’t allow ourselves to nap. We had our picnic dinner in Ann’s room and planned our itinerary for the next day. We were in bed and snoring 💤 by 8. Let’s hope we can sleep until 4 or 5 o’clock!
