We decided to visit the island of Cheung Chau, a little fishing village about 45 min ferry ride from Central ferry terminal. It's always fun learning to catch buses for the first time, I don't know what I would do without Google! I love catching the old ferries across the harbour, great for a bit of history and fantastic views of the city.
We caught the old ferry across to Central and changed to a fast ferry to take us out to Cheung Chau, out there you really get a real feel for just how smoggy it can get.
Arriving at Cheung Chau you realise it's a completely different world to the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong. We went for a good walk exploring the island, I love that there are no cars, most people get around on push bike with a very few motorised small vehicles. Eventually worked up a massive appetite and picked a place, we ordered a few dishes expecting we would polish them off easily. Great mother of god the plates were packed full, it was SO DAMN GOOD but we couldn't through more than 1/3 of it!
I could have easily spent a few days there relaxing and seeing more of the island, its so peaceful, I love seeing how people live and taking photos of all of it.
We eventually caught the ferry back and bus back to the hotel, freshened up, headed out for some dinner,a browse at Harbour City shopping centre and a walk along the harbour front.
The next day was spent exercising at the hotel gym and a swim in the pool. We've been trying to keep our diet relatively healthy, with no bowls in our room eating breakfast with cups is always a treat.
The rest of the day we relaxed, went out for a walk around Mongkok, caught the bus down to Tsim Sha Tsui and went for a walk along the promenade and Avenue of Stars. We found a bar right on the waterfront and decided to sit, have a few drinks and watch the sun set over the harbour.
We decided to catch a cab home...lets just say we had quite a communication barrier between the driver and us, we tried to explain the hotel and show him on the map, but no dice, I ended up just shouting 'MONGKOK MONGKOK', he eventually got me 'ooooooo Mongkok, okay okay okay'. Still unsure if our directions had got through we got even more worried when we ended up on a massive freeway, once again thank jeebus for Google maps, we could track ourselves, we ended up in the right area and he turns down a random street to drop us off, said street ended up being the entrance to our hotel! Maybe he secretly understood us and just wanted to annoy us? Either way he was pretty chuffed with himself and had a good laugh.
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