We arrived in Hong Kong all excited about the things we would see and do in our three full days - a kind of "last gasp" before we settled back down again. However, although the flight from Moscow wasn't bad, we both felt very jet-lagged and needed to sleep once we got into our room at around 1 pm on Friday. The Hotel is lovely and luckily we had booked a room with "Club Lounge" access, which basically means food and drinks almost round the clock. We didn't feel like braving the "outside" once we had woken up, so we had something in the Lounge and fell back into bed. Not a great night's sleep for either of us, so we decided a swim first thing Saturday morning would be the ticket. Unfortunately I did something to my back getting into the pool and have been very unhappy since. We have seen nothing of Hong Kong except the Temple St Markets - luckily only a slow stagger from the Hotel.
The rest of the time, we have dozed - rousing ourselves to go to the Lounge for gin, snacks, gin, breakfast and gin (ranked in order of importance). And thank Goodness for that Lounge, or we would be curled-up skeletons by now! It's really unusual for us to be jet-lagged coming this way as we usually feel it going to the UK, but boy! Richard is exhausted and shows no interest in any sightseeing at all and I just can't. Now it's Sunday night and my back is getting better but it's still painful standing and I can't walk for too long at all just yet. A nice 14 hour plane trip tomorrow will be just what we need!
We have managed a bit of shopping and Rich has crammed it all into our new bags (ahem!) so we will not be too burdened down once we do eventually touch down in Gisborne. Feel free to comment if you can see a bit of a difference between the luggage we started off with in April and the photos below! But as I said when Kuwait Air lost my bag way back, "What's the point of travelling light if they lose your bag because it's too small?" They actually DID say that's why they lost it!
Hopefully all will be well, tomorrow I shall wake up a new woman and Rich will have slept a whole night through - cross your fingers for us!
There is of course a flip side to this saga - we now have to plan a trip back here to do all the things we didn't get a chance to do this time. No worries, mate!
Monday morning update - we both slept very well and all night long for a change. Rich is feeling way more energetic and my back is definitely on the mend. So, to those of you that DID cross your fingers for us - mwah!
Off to the airport now - nearly the last one! We have a short leg to Kuala Lumpur and a couple of hours on the ground before our transfer to the ten hour Auckland flight - extra leg room seats, yay!
The next Blog will be the last and will be written in the comfort of our little Gisborne gaff.
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