Hong Kong

So i've left Ireland on a one way flight again not knowing what this next couple of months look like. Ive got a small 10 stop over in Hong Kong / China and then onto Auckland where I plan on settling until mid January any how that's the so far. Ive never been to Hong Kong or to china so when my flight home for the wedding was going via Hong Kong i thought it would be rude not to stop in and have a look.
The before i was leaving Ireland my cousin Lisa gave me a name & email of a family that are currently living in Hong Kong who ever Aussie's & good friends of there who lived in Ireland for a year back when Pete was a little nipper like 10 or something. So technically id met these guys before so its shouldnt be too intruding to drop in an say hello for a while. So within 24 hours of me sending them an email Harry came to the train station to meet me and bring me back to meet the family. The turners what a family, There's five of them in total with Harry & Julie holding the fort and Jack at 9, Cleo at 7 & Little Will pushing a good solid 3.
The turners have very so generous & a huge blessing let me come into their house and eat the grub & im even settling the kids play room where all the toys are kept. They've welcomed me in and I've had such a great time getting to know them and trying to understand how life in Hong Kong works. They've been here for five years now with Harry working as an investment banker & Julie working with ICM. They both have very strong connections with ICM and there work in the Philippians only 2 hours flights away.
Hong Kong its self is very different to anything ive seem before but also very similar to alot of places aswell. Its kind of got a lot of different cultures and cities pushed into one. Landscape wise its only a small set of islands together with the center being jammed packed with skyscrappers and then on the other side its surrounded by mountainous rain forest and tropical waters. With summer just finishing its cooking hot and doing anything physical requires at least 2 litres of water intake and 3 changes of boxers.

Even though the city is jammed with 8 million people its still got a very classy side to it. There are parks and walkways everywhere. Very well kept, layed out clean walkways with lots of chin-up bars and all that kinda stuff to keep everyone nice and healthy. So you can see they keep a high pride in there appearance and keeping healthy, the whole city apparently after sars got a complete clean up and now there very strict on keeping the place safe & hygienic.
Seeing the skysscrappers from a distance both at day and at night has been one of the most inspirational sights ive ever seen. Obviously loving buildings and stadiums and all that jazz had its influence but seriously its just bonkers they just keep going up and there's hundreds of them everywhere you look. and when they light up at night ah man bonkers. Or the signs overhanging horizontally across every street from every building everywhere red, green blue white flashing everything. BRILLIANT.
And now ill admit im not exact a fashion king or queen or whatever but lets be honest i didn't now 80% of these brands that exist. I probably knew of two types of watches Casio & Rolex not the other 10-20. So its prity funny walking round and then there's the car parks. Every thrid cars is a Porsche 911 and then Ferrari floating about every now and then. Its not every day your priced out of many markets in Asia but its safe to say Hong Kong and parts of mumbai have succeeded at raising the bar for prices. Even food stalls are making me dig deep hahaha but what a places and has to be on every travelers hit list.
So while getting my Visa for china processed, finish the book im reading and also spending some time by myself trying to process the madness of the last 5 weeks in Ireland. So much happened and seeing so many people trying to catch up on 15 months of one of the most influential years of my life and trying to pack all that into a couple of hours with each individual was intimidating but fun aswell trying to testify about all. And without sleep the last 3/4 days i needed a bit of time to get my head together. and then there was a need for detox my poor little skeleton of all that chocolate & endless amount of manna that me Lovely angelic mother put in front of me which i obviously downed in a instant. People never forget never ever forget or appreciate... Family home Fridges which are filled by mothers and eaten by siblings. Oh my world its like Christmas every time you walk upstairs and into the kitchen and its filled with endless choices of extreme belly tingling JOY. anyway Hong Kong.
Ive had a blast here and next stop is China where im going to venture into for 7-9 days depending on how things go. So im very excited bout that seeing if that place is all that its cracked up to be.