New Year was a pretty good time. Started with sushi in TST and moved to Ned Kelly’s where the great house jazz band rang in 2007 and made up for the quality of the food and drinks (iffy at best).
Picked up Becky on evening of the 1st. Her flight landed a little early and lost most of its advantage waiting for a gate (or so the display told me) so we made it back on the late side, but still managed to sneak her past security. Yesterday I ran myself (and her) ragged across Tuen Mun, the TST waterfront, Central, Admiralty, and a touch of SoHo, leading to her finally surrendering to jet lag last evening. I think she should be pretty well reset after that.
Today we took things easier, sampling more of the smörgÃ¥sbord (spell-checker offered the diacriticals, don’t worry, I didn’t know them) of the Tuen Mun area including the mobile phone shops (which I should have used instead of going to Mongkok… no pain, low prices). Before she woke up I got out to Wanchai and picked up my passport, now with a new US$100 sticker allowing me unlimited entry to and exit from the Mainland. Tomorrow morning (really morning, maybe 5h30 or so) we’ll strike out with backpacks for Kuala Lumpur (via Sheung Wan and Macau). I may not blog or update my status as much during this trip, relying more on the buddy system. Then again, it might be hot enough to drive us inside to Internet cafés regularly. Take comfort, photo-starved readers: Becky doesn’t have a camera with her so I get to make her take all the photos with my camera.
In Malaysia, depending on what’s flooded, we are looking at Penang/Georgetown, Malacca, and Johor Bahru/Singapore in addition to KL. We’ll start off couchsurfing, so I hope I can get the local dirt before we finalize any plans.
I need to do laundry and pack if I’m going to be out by then. I’ve just barely scraped together the HK$1 coins.
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