Monday 30th Nov.

And onto Monday. Mr N_M has had a bad foot since we arrived, so I thought it would be good to not go so far today and rest his foot. Remember that detail for later on!!

We walked across to McDonalds at lunchtime, now normally I don't go within miles of Maccy D's at home, but here it is good. I had a large salad with a cup of hot sweetcorn, while Sir had the Mega McPepper burger. That is 2 burgers with black pepper sauce - one of his favourites. Followed by a chocolate sundae for me and a chocolate pie for him. It was all delish!

In the evening we decided to go to Sha Tin, which is a long old trek in terms of miles, but just a few train stops with a couple of changes. We had dinner there, I bought a few bits and we looked round our favourite store - Citi Super, which is a Japanese shop and full of very interesting things. A new store had just opened in the centre, and the tradition is for all the other businesses and local dignatories to send flowers. It was an amazing sight.

On the way back I thought it might be good to get a bus, as they stop near the hotel rather than the fairly lengthy trek from the MTR station. Remember what I said about his foot? Right. So we're standing in Mongkok, looking at the fronts of buses for their destinations, when suddenly he runs for one. As we sit down, I just check with him that we're on the right bus.

Well, he says, it sort of goes in the right direction, but you can never be sure where they will stop. Cue the bus getting on a Highway (which didn't exist when he lived here) and shooting off for many miles past our stop!! We end up in Tuen Mun, the place he lived as a kid, it's now way past midnight and all the buses bar a couple of night buses, have stopped until the morning!

We then walk back and forth, hunting for a minibus or bus that will take us back to where we need to be. Remember his foot? Ha! Eventually we flagged down a minibus and got a ride back to near the hotel. The speed limit is 70kph on the highways, but this bloke is doing 118 kph, with his speed detector beeping until it sounded like exploding, haha. By this time it was almost 2am, and my feet were bloody sore as well as his! We're laughing about it now, but being stranded miles from home didn't feel too funny last night. Plonker!

Today we're meeting up with C and she's taking us out for dinner somewhere in Mongkok. Before that we're off to the computer plaza, alias Geeks Paradise. We may be sometime.......