Saturday 16th March
Nathan Road, Kowloon
Our first night in Hong Kong and despite the 12+hour flight we head straight to the Star Ferry which is just by our hotel.
We end up eating in what we affectionately term Chinese McDonalds, Fairwood.
I have a set meal of satay pork, steamed spinach and rice, green tea and a soup with large unidentifiable floating objects – apart from the chickens foot. Hurrah we have arrived!
At midnight Nathan Road is as bright as day thanks to the huge amount of neon and florescent lighting. The huge illuminated advertising signs hang over the street just above our heads and they seem to be bigger than the building they are attached to. This all adds to the sense of claustrophobia and seedyness - not helped by shops called Wanko.
Tonight is St Patrick’s Day, reluctantly we find an Irish themed pub. The place is packed with people wearing plastic green hats. We are greeted by the owner, a Malaysian lady wearing an oversized Guinness pint glass shaped hat. The Irish band keep asking the audience ‘Who is from Ireland?’ – silence… Well my great-great grandmother was. Does that count?
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