Hong Kong

For some reason, Hong Kong has never been a city that I've been desperate to visit. No real idea why - it doeson paper seem my type of place - big city, tall buildings, very very pretty bridges...


And if visiting HK had come up, I really don't think I would have chosen the to do the trip the way that I did. For my first HK experience was a solo trip, integrated with my chartership exams, which I may or may not tell you about further.


So very early on a Friday morning I set off for Changi airport. By far my favourite airport in the world. Except this time I was flying from the Budget terminal - effectively a shed in the middle of nowhere. This, though, is still more pleasant than the worst of the UKs airports, and on a par with the better ones.


In between revising for exams in what is, quite simply, the most unremarkable hotel room I've ever stayed in, I dodged rain showers. And didn't dodge them all that well. I had a free Sunday - so tried to go and have a look around Kowloon. But got soaked. Then I thought of going up the Peak. But couldn't see it even from Hong Kong Island - so decided to compromise and stay at sea level, and get some shots across the harbour - but I couldn't see the other side..


In fact - it was so wet, that I needed a shower to dry off - which really just meant stoning in the hotel room doing revision. Of course - this is not a bad thing necessarily. After all, the trip was to take exams - and if I've passed these then it was successful. If I failed them, then it's one of the worst blow outs of my life!!


Eventually the place did clear enough for me to take and stitch this skyline of HK Island: