One way to get an overview of a city is to get to the highest point - and have a good look round. Luckily Auckland has provided the Sky Tower http://www.skycityauckland.co.nz/Attractions/Skytower.html to provide you with that very opportunity. So my brother and I went up, and had a good look at stuff. Being 328 meters tall makes stuff look very small.   Then I had a Chicken Caesar Salad and a Piña Colada.

More like the late summer, but the allure of a triple alliterative title was too much to resist. A nice flight over with Air New Zealand and a glass of sparkling wine. It’s a bit rainy in NZ, we’re promised nicer weather later. But I don’t really care, it’s just nice to see family down under…

I guess most people associate Hong Kong with Blade Runner-esque cityscape of neon, skyscrapers and people - although there’s far more to it than that - no wait. that’s not the point here…   Why am I doing this? Why am I writing these posts? Is it to connect, to stay in touch with friends and family and show them what I’m up to?

For my last night in Hong Kong, I thought I’d do the street food experience. Right opposite my hotel (The Evergreen Hotel - cheap and decent wifi - essential for the modern traveller) was the Woonsung Street Temporary Cooked Food Hawker Bazaar (located here http://www.waybird.com/+9SHOIP0UA ) - a formidable sounding name and not the most high class dining experience you could imagine - but hey.

It’s a bit strange I went almost half way round the world, only to end up on another boat - or maybe not strange at all. Anyway, the majority of my stay in Hong Kong was aboard the good ship Bobo.

As you might gather, I am not the one to do the usual holiday things. So when the opportunity presents itself to board the abandoned wreck of a racing yacht for a bit of an explore (and just because we happened to be passing) I’ll only pause to check I have my camera. Fan of abandoned rubbish that I am.

All at Kam Tin Long Sushi, their web site http://www.kamtinlongsushi.com/ and their location http://www.waybird.com/+9SHOIDYUG yum yum!    

There are three cats on the boat. Can you find them all? For every cat you find, make a mark on your worksheet. If you have time at the end of the lesson, you can draw a picture of the cats. Meanwhile, I’ve been spending my Monday evening learning more Filipino street fighting moves on some Hong Kong backstreet near Aberdeen docks. I like a nice, quiet, safe time me.

Not quite, but alongside luxury apartments and hi-rises of Hong Kong, there are plently of semi-abandoned fishing villages dotting the coastline. This one, on the east side of Tai Tam bay seems to have been used as a military defence point during WW2.

  Not three words I expect to hear together, surely the idea of an Ovaltine ice cream (found at a 7 eleven in Repulse Bay) is bad enough, but to label it as a Nutrional Malt Cone? I stuck to the choclate bar… It was a Dove choclate bar, hopefully my skin will be nice and smooth now… Curious confectionary in Hong Kong!