Hong Kong

Hong Kong was all shopping. I can't explain how sick of shopping we both were at the end of Hong Kong. The prices and selection weren't so great there. Certain phones and cameras that were already available back home had yet to be released in Hong Kong. We were really surprised to find that. Also 3 TB hard drives were non existent and 2 TB were almost as rare. At home you can easily get those a hundred places online and a few shops. We went to the biggest named shops in Hong Kong and still couldn't get them. We did have a good time in the markets though. The food was really good though we varied between Asian and Western a lot because of cost and location when we were hungry and stuff. Our hostel was in pretty bad condition and didn't really have a hostel vibe to it so no real meeting people or hanging out. A pigeon came in our window while we were trying to go asleep. A feather floated down and Brian noticed it. We did get to wander round a few places though and it is a nice city. The people are very nice. The shops have way too many assistants but I suppose shopping is a massive industry here. In the end we didn't buy a whole lot as we couldn't find one shop with everything we wanted and individually everything was more expensive than back home. I'm talking about electronics entirely here. I think Hong Kong is still quite the place to buy fashion but myself and Brian weren't really interested a whole lot in that. Final day we spent looking for a post office, turns out there was one in the airport which is pretty handy. Posted a few things home that we didn't need and that were taking up space in our bags and headed off on our flight. In the airport a family of Asians each wanted to get pictures with myself and Brian. First we thought they wanted us to take their picture but then one of them sat down between us and his wife/girlfriend took a picture and then she sat down between us and then a woman who looked one of their mother's did. Very weird indeed. BTW for those of you who heard the original plan it's changed. We are no longer heading to Osaka. After everything that's happened in Japan them seem up to their eyes in problems and everyone seems very worried about us (thanks) so we changed our flights from Osaka to Seoul in South Korea. Kelly-Anne has been nice enough to put us up for an extra week in her place and I can't wait to see her as I've missed he loads since she left to teach in Korea. So the change of plan worked out and ended up a lot cheaper without the extra boat ride and with Kelly-Anne putting us up. We would both be completely broke without our parents at this point so this should help in not having to annoy them again :) The last two weeks of the trip have been paid for since November so we aren't too badly off.