Day 1: Hong Kong

At long last the trip begins, but not with the best of beginnings. First I had only about 2hours sleep since I absolutely had to check everything over again. I had a 7:30 flight so I ended up at the airport at 6ish, checked my bags in and pretty much went through the gate after farewells to the folks and my bro. I'm gonna miss that lad as he's off to kimchi-land, Korea. To start the trip off, my flight is then delayed by another late arriving flight so we didn't take off for an extra 45min. And as it turned out, it was one of those old airbus A330s. I like airbuses but this one was due for retirement.

Food was surprisingly good, had an omelette for breakfast with a sausage, lunch was a selection of some sort of fried chicken, hake and a vegetarian pasta dish, so I went for the hake. The inflight entertainment was crap. It completely didn't match what was written in the guide, so I gave up on that and had a series of catnaps repeatedly broken by my sciatica in my left side acting up constantly, not pleasant at all. After lunch watched some stuff on my laptop hoping to while the time until landing, but ended up using all of the battery instead with an hour and a half left before landing, shit...

Finally landed! I've often complained that hk is only good for 2 things, eating and shopping and that's true, but landing back in this muggy city I've come to realise that I actually did miss the chaos and oddities which make this city what it is. The people who sleep in short snatches, the constant noise, the crowded streets. The other bonus is that it's spring time here. Today was a balmy 27 degrees (or 81 degrees Fahrenheit for you americans out there) and thoroughly humid so I was sweating enjoyably wandering around the streets looking for food. Unfortunately, having found and consumed said food my severe lack of sleep has caught up to me and I must to sleep. Tomorrow -> MACAU

P.S will have to post pictures at a later point since I'm borrowing someone elses internet....