Had a fitful sleep despite the fact that3 of us piled onto the 2 beds last night. Baby 2 swore she didn't sleep properly. i was out, totally.
It's the free city tour today and we were up bright and early. Took the Ann's Travel coach to have dim sum, visited the Square where China gave a huge golden state flower (of Hong Kong), a diamond factory (where I won a piece of precious gem and paid HK$150 to have it set as a pendant).
We gave the temples at Causeway Bay a miss, after visiting Hong Kong's biggest yacht club in Aberdeen and went on a boat that took us round some of the fanciest yachts, moored alongside some shabby sampans that are home to some of the poorest families in Hong Kong - the irony is not lost on us... The government is subsidising these families to move them to live on shore, while the rich ones are buying larger yachts to be moored there??
Finally, we arrived at the chinese medicinal place where sales people were trying to flog us stuff. I didn't mind, except the woman who served us was both pushy and rude. In the end, we wandered somewhere else and yup, we bought from another sales lady instead.
At the end of the tour, we realised that although the tour is free, we have to pay the driver and the guide HK$50 each / pax, so that was $300 down the drain. They also took pictures of us and stuck them on some awful tacky gold-rimmed plates. I declined all but one, and that cost us another HK$150.
Afterwards, we grabbed some lunch at one of those tea restaurants that is such a craze now in Singapore, and for HK$ 78, (less than S$16) we had one of the best chicken rice - better than most coffee shops in Singapore, and 2 other lunches, drinks inclusive. Not bad, eh?
The afternoon was spent shopping along Cameron Road, my old neighbourhood, and looking for Choco Cat cafe. This was a surprise for baby 1.
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