On my first day on my own in the city, after I had tried to sort out my job I though I would go for a little stroll around the city. My little stroll ended up taking up the whole day and also taking in most of the City.
As I do not want to bore the life out of you all with this blog, I will try to turn it into more of a photo journal of D and I's exploits in HK. This is probably best done through as many pictures as I can take and as little waffle as possible from me.
My wonder took me all around the city, I passed through Causeway Bay, Happy Valley, Wan Chai, Admiralty and Central. I will try to explain what all of the pictures are and where they are in Hong Kong.
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| Happy Valley Racecourse |
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| My slightly odd shaped stitched together photos of Happy Valley |
Above is a race-goers dream. A stunning racecourse smack bang in the middle of one of the biggest metropolises in the work. Happy Valley is buzzing every week and by the look of the stands as I was walking around, it can probably hold most of the population of Hong Kong too. Looking forward to having a little flutter on the 15th April with a few of the guys from D's office! Will feedback to you guys once I sampled the place for myself.
These flats below I am sure are popular with horse racing fans as they are right on top of the track with a grandstand view of the grandstand and track.
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| Some Prime Happy Valley Real Estate |
My stroll next took me past the Hong Kong Stadium where in a couple of months the greatest team in the world (I'll give you a clue it starts with A... and ends in ...RSENAL) will be playing against reigning regional champions Kitchee FC. I'm not sure how good being the reigning regional champions makes them, but I don't really care to be honest.
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| Hong Kong Stadium: Home of the Hong Kong Sevens and soon to be ARSENAL!!! |
The next stop on my little walkabout was a sport of lunch with D. I met here in her mega-cool office block and headed over the Pacific Place Mall and to my new favourite place in Hong Kong, GrEAT international supermarket. Apart from being ludicrously expensive (everything is anyway) it has the tastiest looking selection of food and fresh food stands that I have ever seen. After I had demolished some rather tasty lunch I dropped D back off in her ridiculous building and thought it best to take a few snaps of her ridiculously designed office block. Below are a few choice snaps, but to be honest I could have taken pictures of the place all day if I didn't have more of HK to explore.
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| Lippo Centre, Hong Kong |
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| The Lippo Centre again (I'm getting better at this photo stitching malarkey aren't I????) |
My wanderings after lunch took me to the International Financial Centre (IFC to those in the know) and the worlds 2nd biggest Apple store!! Still no iPad to report, will have to find work first! No malls in this place seem to stock normal, mid-range brands, its all luxury watches and super expensive clothes, and the IFC mall is no different. To those of you uncultured who are not sure which building the IFC mall is at the base of its the one that Batman jumps off of in The Dark Knight in order to get into the shorter building nearby which is Lau's headquarters.
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| The International Finance Centre (Batman jumps into the smaller skyscraper on the right of the photo) |
I realise that I have done more waffling than I promised at the beginning of this post so I will sign off now for this time.
May the force be with you and hello to Jason Isaacs.....
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