So, it doesn't take long to forget things. I'm in Italy now (doing TEFL, which is why I'm currently covered in glitter. Well, that actually wasn't the students - I bought glitter, and it exploded in my bag. It's really hard to get off....), and I really should have done this in my day between flights! (I flew to Italy on Saturday, and briefly freaked out because my watch said it was Sunday 3rd. I think it must have been the time-changes, somehow.)
Quick summary then. After Macau, during the day we...did something. Hmm. What did we do? I think I had a nap. And in the evening we went out for szechuan (thank you Google - did not know how to spell that) with some of Tabs and Matt's friends for a friend's birthday. It was this great small place, up a few stairs and with kids' drawings on one of the walls (we contemplated adding to the collection). There wasn't a menu - the woman who ran it just gave you various things. And you could buy a can of coke etc, but had to bring your own wine/beer. It was quite spicy but really nice. Especially the beans. As in pencil beans. Not baked beans.
The next day Tabs had to work, so Zoe and I went on the tube/metro with our Octopus cards to the Ladies' Market, which was on the non-island side of Hong Kong (apparently the more 'Chinese' part). I managed to improve my bargaining skills enough to barter about 50p off the cost of a pair of coral/red leggings which were a lot brighter once I looked at them in decent light, and maybe £1 (Zoe helped on this one - and she'd have helped more if I hadn't so clearly wanted the painting, praised it a lot, and questioned her negotiations) off a painting. It was really nice, though: big, cost about £15, and I only left it 2 places on the way home (once in the scanner thing in Shanghai - a nice man shouted after me - "Miss!" - and waved the painting at me). I managed to tear Zoe away - "Zoe, No More Handbags!" - at about 3/4pm and we went home, bought some thankyou gifts, realised we actually had very little time to meet Tabs, got ready, rushed out, and went for a very expensive cocktail in the tallest building in Hong Kong (Sky Tower I think). There weren't any seats so we asked a man and woman if we could sit in front of them - opposite their sofa, with a table in between.
They were on a date.
It didn't particularly seem like the woman wanted to be there.
Although maybe we were putting her off.
Next day/million years was travel home (on no sleep because someone - me, kept drinking water then going to wee), my Mum (thank you!) spent a day doing my laundry and also polishing my sandals, and now I'm here, in Savignano.
So that's it. Thank you to those people who've read this :)
(And now, the final photos.)
Quick summary then. After Macau, during the day we...did something. Hmm. What did we do? I think I had a nap. And in the evening we went out for szechuan (thank you Google - did not know how to spell that) with some of Tabs and Matt's friends for a friend's birthday. It was this great small place, up a few stairs and with kids' drawings on one of the walls (we contemplated adding to the collection). There wasn't a menu - the woman who ran it just gave you various things. And you could buy a can of coke etc, but had to bring your own wine/beer. It was quite spicy but really nice. Especially the beans. As in pencil beans. Not baked beans.
The next day Tabs had to work, so Zoe and I went on the tube/metro with our Octopus cards to the Ladies' Market, which was on the non-island side of Hong Kong (apparently the more 'Chinese' part). I managed to improve my bargaining skills enough to barter about 50p off the cost of a pair of coral/red leggings which were a lot brighter once I looked at them in decent light, and maybe £1 (Zoe helped on this one - and she'd have helped more if I hadn't so clearly wanted the painting, praised it a lot, and questioned her negotiations) off a painting. It was really nice, though: big, cost about £15, and I only left it 2 places on the way home (once in the scanner thing in Shanghai - a nice man shouted after me - "Miss!" - and waved the painting at me). I managed to tear Zoe away - "Zoe, No More Handbags!" - at about 3/4pm and we went home, bought some thankyou gifts, realised we actually had very little time to meet Tabs, got ready, rushed out, and went for a very expensive cocktail in the tallest building in Hong Kong (Sky Tower I think). There weren't any seats so we asked a man and woman if we could sit in front of them - opposite their sofa, with a table in between.
They were on a date.
It didn't particularly seem like the woman wanted to be there.
Although maybe we were putting her off.
Next day/million years was travel home (on no sleep because someone - me, kept drinking water then going to wee), my Mum (thank you!) spent a day doing my laundry and also polishing my sandals, and now I'm here, in Savignano.
So that's it. Thank you to those people who've read this :)
(And now, the final photos.)
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