The hotel in Phonm Penh is really nice and they do a good breakfast, nothing fancy but the eggs are cooked well. Plus the have free computers to use so that's great for emailing. We then got our taxi to the airport, it's a bit weird driving around the city with motorbikes, cyclists and taxis whizzing all around whilst we're feeling really safe in the car. Adam had some issues getting through security, on the bag scan they thought they'd seen a knife so searched his bag only to find there was no knife, however they did find his sellotape which they confiscated for being dangerous!
Arrived in Hong Kong at about 3pm, decided to use the airport express train to get into town and then use the MTR to get to our hotel. Only problem with this was that it meant changing lines twice and the last train was pretty busy, anyway we managed. We started walking to the hotel and turned down the road which it's on only to find a busy fruit and veg market going on, plus we're not sure which along the road we need to go. Luckily we picked the right direction and manage to negotiate the crowds of people.
When we get to our room we discover it is the smallest room there could possibly be! It is basically the width of a double bed, with a tiny space down one side, not really big enough to walk down. There's a wardrobe, well a tiny cupboard on the wall which you can hang shirts in, but 90 degrees to the way they would normally hang! Anyway I guess you get what you pay for...
Whilst deciding what to do with the rest of the day I received a birthday phonecall from Duncan. It was great to hear from England, I'm looking forward to getting home.
We then headed out, first we took the MTR to the last stop in Kowloon. As soon as we got out of the subway station people were hassling us about getting suits made and shirts etc, we soon decided to turn off the crazy busy road. We walked around a bit a then watched the light show. We looked over to Hong Kong Island from Kowloon and they played music whilst some the buildings did a light show. It was kinda entertaining although I think seeing it once is enough. We then took the star ferry over to Hong Kong Island. It's crazy how cheap it is, about 23p one way!
For dinner we eventually found a weird pizza bar. The beer was pretty nice although fairly pricey and pizza was good. The street it was on seemed quite 'interesting' some nice ladies trying to get business in some bars! We finally made it back to our hotel, fairly late and pretty tired! Unfortunately by time we got back to our tube stop the nice cake shop was shut so no birthday cake for me today...
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