20 March 2010
Welcome to Hong Kong
Arriving into Hong Kong was very smooth also, first off the plane, first to the customs line, bought an octopus card tourist pass thing that gets you to the city on the cool train, then unlimited use of public transport for 3 days, train arrived 1 minute after I got there, I changed to an MTR train in seconds, that arrived at a mega mall that has a connection direct to my hotel...I had yet to set foot outside!
I thought I would have to leave my bags and wait hours for a room, but no, they had one available now, and check in was hugely efficient, very impressive compared to the idiots in England who take an age to do anything.
Thats my first class luggage tag, I may never see one again.
And heres my ticket, showing that I flew in row 2, which might happen again, but next time it will be a business class seat because there will be no first class on most planes and where there is, theres no such thing as upgrades to first (OK thats the end of plane status wankerisms).
The airport express train, it was pretty great, had a display showing where you are on a digital map, the only problem I had was at one point I know we went over a huge bridge, because I could see downwards that we were high off the ocean, but for whatever reason they had blocked the view apart from a little gap almost straight down.
The mall my train came out at.
The outside of my hotel/mall.
After checking in I went for a wander, I was excited, huge apartment blocks with clothes hanging out 50 floors up.
Meat.
Fish.
Mountains - the jaggedness of these was surprising, you see a lot of them from the airport train, im excited to go climb some of them as I could see concrete walking paths up them.
I found a supermarket more impressive than macro foods in Kensington London, this place really did have everything, it was very expensive though.
Another shot of said supermarket, yes I realise im the only so called man alive who gets excited at supermarkets.