Sunday 4 January

Late breakfast this morning which I only just made as they have changed the hours to finish at 10 am and I was there at 9.55. Thank goodness J had already grabbed me a yoghurt and coffee! We then head down to the ferry terminal and into the Tourism office which had been so helpful previously. I asked what there would be to see and do if we took the ferry to Wan Chai such is more business and local residential. We were told about a market which works be about a15 minute walk from the ferry terminal. So off we head on another adventure. We have mastered the ticket purchase system so are soon onboard the ferry. Weather is perfect again.

Now on dry land and attempting to follow a map to the market area, we set off.

At traffic lights I am getting my bearings when am Indian man asks if he can help us with directions. I show him on the map where we are aiming for and he tells us that he is heading that way so to follow him. Trust is a must, as we follow him. Just as well as he took us the door cuts to go on overhead walkways. He leaves us on a main street as he is off to temple but tell us that we just need to stay on that road. We have a lovely time wandering along. This really is where the locals shop.

There was nothing to tempt us to try or buy so decide to head back to the ferry terminal. We could have taken the MTR but the ferry is more scenic. We are able to retrace out steps back to the very terminal so have a walk along the promenade before heading to the ferry.

Back on the ferry and then a walk around near our hotel, where I find a souvenir shop that has a HK wall tile which will be hung out on my verandah. Back to the hotel for a coffee in the Cafe area. It isn't cheap but it is good. A short test in the room and then we head to high Tea at the hotel. We had previously booked on the Tuesday for today at 3pm. High Tea is advertised as being served every day in the middle row bar where we have happy hour. On Thursday night at 10pm we got a phone call in our room to tell us that high Tea is cancelled as there is now a party booked for the room. Anyway, Friday morning we excited our disappointment at being messed around, and we are advised that we can still have our high Tea on Sunday, but in the dining room. So that where it high Tea was today. Not nearly as nice and private a seeing as staff were cleaning the floor and setting tables for the evening buffet. It was quite noisy so when we were finally offered the high Tea (20 minutes after we were seated) we said how disappointed we were as although the high Tea would not doubt be nice, the room was not and had spoiled the experience. J suggested that a complimentary wine would help so we both got our free balls of wine, plus when I asked them to confirm the price, we were offered 20% discount so that helped too.Mind you, they add 10%to every bill...

Time to head back to our room for a rest before happy hour. LOL! This is our last full day in HK and we have certainly packed a lot in. The weather gods have been very kind and there isn't much more that we think we could have fitted in apart from going to see the pandas at Ocean world, and as we can see pandas in Adelaide, we don't feel that we've missed out. Happy hour is a nice end to our evening. We got to speaking to an American couple nearby who have just finished a cruise and are also heading home tomorrow. Was nice to swap travel stories. Their luggage was missing for 5 days so they certainly had stories to tell! Apparently San Francisco is notorious for delayed luggage. Anyway time to head back to our room and bed. We've had a ball!