While eating breakfast we could hear a drumming sound, that came from the canoeing school down at the beach, and was from an instructor who was instructing the people how to set the speed in a dragon boat, as they have to paddle to the rhythm of a drum. To day is very warm but a breeze is blowing and manage to cool us a little down. Out on the water some windsurfers also benefits from the winds as we can see their triangle shaped 
sails way out on the bay crisscrossing the water surface. Catriona is doing some hovering before we go out on to days exploration, it is her day off so she needs some free time. We all headed for Sai Kung to take the minibus no. 101 to Hang Hau MTR station. From there we boarded the train to North point where we had to change for the island line –the blue line on the map- towards Central station. 
Arriving at Central we found exit D for Pedder Street. We walked to the midlevels escalator, joined that for a couple of levels and got of at an Egyptian restaurant called Habibi, where we had a light lunch. I ate Koshery, Ricky a Lamb kebab with salad and chili sauce, Jørgen had some minced beef in pastry packages, also he ate the chili sauce, and in fact he and Ricky finished the whole bottle, just the two of them.
Catriona had a chicken kebab and salad. As a starter we shared two plates of Hummus and Babaganoush, which is a chickpea paste mixed with eggplant paste (aubergine). I really liked that.After the meal we headed for the Victoria Peak tram and by that we went up to the Victoria Peak to admire the outstanding view down on –
and between- the high-rises of Hong Kong island and across the Victoria harbour to Kowloon and Tsim Sha Tsui. The weather was stunning with a blue sky and the pollution wasn’t as bad either so we could see quite a lot from up there that day.We took a bus back down a very steep hill from the Peak, and got of at Wan Chai where Jørgen wanted to take us for a drink in the Junk Pub on Jaffa road. We walked from the bus stop through hectic busy streets and right to the Pub (how does he manage to find everything?). After a drink we went for a walk around Wan Chai and found Delayneys; an Irish Pub. That night there was some football going on in Europe, some qualifying games for the world cup 2012 in South Africa, and Ricky and Jørgen really wanted to see Scotland play against Norway.
At Delaneys they advertised showing the game on TV that night so we decided to go in for a meal and stay to watch the game, which was on at 10 PM. It was just 7 PM so we had a good table just in front a big screen and then we’re ready to order. I’ve a non alcoholic drink –cinnamon and banana fix- it’s nice, and a Guinness pie with vegetables sounds nice and as Scotland play Norway later, we would be there for some time, we thought. Also Ricky got tempted by the Guinness Pie, but as it came it turned out to be very disappointing, so instead of staying there with bad mood, we decided to head back for Sai Kung to find a local Pub there to watch the Scotland game, and then be home in Tai Wan village just after midnight. But what do you know; in Sai Kung the pubs only have broadband television, and the game wasn’t on there as they chose only to show England, so the two us were very disappointed –and those two was Jørgen and Ricky- as we didn’t come to see the game at all.
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