Saturday, July 09, 2005

Duck Action Shot




Took a shedload of pics of HK views and the like but haven't uploaded them yet. Just so you know that in taking the pics I will upload tomorrow (back home!) I was mauled no less than 15 times by rogue insects and I am now covered from ankle to thigh in plasters.

In the meantime here is an action shot of our waiter cutting up our Peking duck for consumption with pankcakes etc. He did the whole folding pankcake thing with chopsticks - v. impressive! Shame he only did the first ones for us...

For me, I have to say with all honesty that the food's been OK, but nothing here in HK has topped our very own Famous Chinese in Letchworth Garden City.

Sometime in the next couple of days we will post our final blogs, along with a few more pics.

Now we've got to catch a plane!

Big Buddha




Australia has the Big Pineapple, the Big Sheep and the Big Macadamia.
New Zealand has the Big Golfball and the Big Fish.
Hong Kong has the Big Buddha. It's bigger than the other big things.

Thursday, July 07, 2005

London Bombings

We're taking a brief break from the holiday blog to express our shock and sadness at the events in London this morning.

Most of our friends and family have been accounted for. We're still waiting on a couple of people, but hopefully it's the mobile phone networks being down that are causing concern.

We will blog again tomorrow. Life has to go on and we've got a holiday to finish :)

Best wishes and stay safe,

R'n'C. x

Monday, July 04, 2005

Convict spotted in Sydney Harbour...



Description:

- Approx 6'2"
- No distinguishing features but some strange ones
- Answers to own name and several others

Do not feed.
Do not approach under any circumstances.