Our flight home isn’t until 730pm tonight so we had some time to kill on our last day. We arranged to keep our hotel room until we head to the airport at 4, so we were able to head out this morning and explore a bit more. We had no real set agenda other than…

For our last full day in Hong Kong we returned to Coffee Academics for breakfast and then ventured over to Kowloon to see the 10,000 Buddhas Monastery. We figured because it’s only 36 C today, why not climb 400 steps then go hiking in the woods? The monastery is also known as Man Fat Sze.…

There are so many cafes around our hotel we’ve yet to visit one twice. . Today we ate at The Brunch Club and Supper. A bit of a questionable name, but worked out okay. Food here comes out like a Chinese restaurant at home. It comes out when it’s cooked, not as a table. I…

Today’s breakfast was at the Capital Cafe which is a bit of an institution here apparently. There was a crowd of people waiting outside, although we didn’t have to wait too long for a seat. It’s fast and cheap(ish) and quite good. I was going to go for the macaroni option until I realized it…

We took the subway to Lantau Island with the idea of taking the cable car up to the Tian Tan Buddha. But for some reason the cable car was not operating today. No big deal as there is a bus right there. I have to say the Octopus card makes getting around so easy. We…

After a good night’s rest and a bit of a sleep in, we walked over to Coffee Academics for breakfast. Kris got real English Breakfast Tea in a bodum and a proper tea cup and I had a solid coffee. We are no longer in mainland China! Hong Kong is made up of 260 individual…

This morning’s breakfast was a wee bit more limited but we made do. A boiled egg handed to us as we walked into the dining room and some very very white bread. And for some reason no tea despite asking for it. Weird. We checked out and drove to Hongcun Village. The village is an…

Happy Anniversary to us. Today marks 24 years together. Our breakfast at this ‘rural’ hotel was decent enough so we had enough energy for the day. The Yellow Mountains were originally known as Yishan (Mount Yi) during the Qin Dynasty. The name changed to Huangshan (literally Yellow Mountain) in 747 AD possibly in honour of…

Happy Mother’s Day! We woke up at the Westin in Shanghai, a modern hotel in a modern city. We are going to bed in Tangkou, a rural town with, well, let’s call it a rural hotel. More on that later. We flew to Huangshan which is a small city of 1.5 million people. It’s tea…