18th July 2007. traveling to Hong Kong from guilin.

Well day started out ok, went for me usual tomato and cheese sarny. yummy.

had to be out the room by 13:00, so didn't do too much, got breaky and changed some money to HKD (hong kong dollars)

actually nearly had a fight in the bank, bloody women trying to push in front, i'll show her the british way. bitch.

Sorry we had numbers for who was next, so thats why i started on her, and yeah she can't speak english, but i cant speak chinese and it was fun !!!! lol

so went back to hotel and played psp for abot 4 hrs. was told the bus picks me up from hostel. wrong, surprise surprise, nothing is simply in china.

Anyway it was ok, a bloke from the bus came and got me, payed for the taxi to the bus and showed me the way, thanks wang (no that is not his name i have no idea what it i, anyway )

but looked ok, but i noticed it had no toliet, hold on this is a 12hr jounrey im told (actually more like 15hrs) and there is no toliet, shit. and i meant that shit.
lucky for me i got a toliet before i we left the station, and as luck would have it they stoped after abuot 4hrs into it, for toliet and food, so wasnt as bad as i thought.

well what can i say, bus ride was horrible, bloody worst experiance yet, but yeh thats what im here for, all good and bad experiances, lets be honest they aren't all gonna be good. look at the first day.
anyway, not sure whaty type of "road" we was on, but seemed like a dirt track to me, i was getting flown all over the place, and a few times got flown in the air at least 2 inchs off the bed, how the hell is anyone meant to sleep on that.

thank good for PSP. that kept me busy and what a god send.

so i actually managed about 2 hrs i think on and off, on the bus. and oh yeah the bus doenst' take you to hong kong it takes you to shenzhu or something like that, and i had to find a way to hongkong from there was told a number 7 bus should take me to the train station, although the hostel told be bus to hong kong. bloody chinese!!!

anywa had some luck, when i got on the bus i was the only white guy on ther, im thinking great, but we stoped off on a village outside guilin and picked up some foriegners. actually some pretty hot irish women (yeah you know you are !!)

and when we stoped at shenzhu, we started talking, well one wanted a light, so we started talking and i actually got a taxi from shenzhu tot he train station and got the train with them to hong kong, which was nice to have some company. they got off at kowloon which is the other island to me, but hopefully we will meet for drinks. not like that england i am a gentleman. please.


so all in all a shit time traveling but at least i got to hong kong, and it wasnt as bad as i thought it was gonna be.


HONG KONG

yeah you can tell im not in kansas anymore, sorry china. hong kong is so western, sky scrapers everywhere, just like the pics funny enough !!!!

meet some really nice blokes in the hostel, however they are gonig today, dam. oh well more to meet i hope.

just settled in today, went for a walk round causeway bay, which is 2 stops down on the metro from the hostel, basiaclly just lots of shops and was gonna walk down the sea front, but didn't make it as i saw a buy one get one free on beer. which guess what sold me. anyway that was kind of cool, got chatting to a bloke from croyden,, who was over here, guess what teaching english. he was nice, some british humor is good when your out in the wild !!!!!

so back to hostel and just gonna get some sleep, early night tonight, gonna get up and have a full day in HK.

dam is it expensive hear, not gonna stay too long hear, to put it in perspective, a 1.5ltr bottle of water in china cost me 2 yeun, here in china cost me 18 HKD, they are the same exchange rate.

Anyway maybe that was where i was, as it was near the star ferry cross to hongkong from kowloon. Ouch that was choppy but lucky that wasn't for long about 5 mins, so i can stomach that. lol thats funny !!! (yeah not really but hey im tired)

oh almost forgot, already had to complain in HK, was eating dinner and i was discussed by the , i way i was treated, just like a foriegner. yes i know i am, but its discusting, especially when they add a 10% charge for the hospitality, and they even did when i just ordered a beer earlier which i think is discusting.

Anyway, i had to sit at the waiting table and eat, when every chinese person came in sat at the waiting table and got a table within a min, where i had to stay there and eat, was not happy. plus i was tired, also what annoyed me was the women was indian so she was a foriegner, i thought she may understand, but no bitch !!!!!
anywa i started to "discuss" the 10% charge saying i wasn;t gonna pay it, and do i have to, she said some bollocks that meant yes, so i correct her, and said, so the answer to my question was yes then !!!! arghhhh. she was quiet taken back by my rudeness, go england go !!!
and she actually gave me 30HKD off, so that wasn't bad, maybe i should do it more often.

the cheeky, yes i am tired. but it worked.d actually i think that is the first time every i have complained, and i did it proper (that is so cockney propa) and did it at the end, she knew i wasnt happy cos i made sure she heard me say some comments when she was close. the chinese people behind her heard me.

Mental note must remember in HK they can speak english very well. must remember.

anyway good night all,