Yes it is easter and it's a Holiday, and we're in Holiday and what have we been doing?Well the German influence on this site might disappear again a little bit, coz the main language around here is again the English language.
Well Easter Holiday and what have we been doing? Not much is the simple answer. We have not booked any exiting travel because Catriona needs a new Passport and our visas for China has expired. But not only did she need a new passport, she also needed to change her surname coz she got married one year ago, and not only in her passport but also in her Hong Kong identity card. The passport was not so big a deal, just remember that you are not allowed to smile on the Photos -and those who knows Catriona also knows that that nearly impossible. The identity cards though is another case, we had that in August when we first came here. We have to go to some outskirt of Sha Tin called Fo Tan. Here you have to enter an out moded shopping mall at 8 am to queue up with a still growing number of applicants, waiting for the immigration office to open at 9 am and hope for an appointment, then you wait again for several hours for the appointment and then you could be lucky. Because it is an out skirt, it is not really something to see there so you are just stuck. Fortunately there are some small Chinese breakfast places there, with very nice and cheap Chinese Breakfast.
BUT they got the worst coffee you could ever imagine, it's even worst than the coffee you could get in the Czech Republic 10 years ago. So we spend two Mornings there, and for us it was something coz we have to travel nearly one hour to get there, and the first morning we came to late, the quota was filled and we had to come again the next day, even earlier.Then there was our friends here from the US, and we went with them to Lan Kwai Fong and to the night races in Happy Valley before they left for Hanoi on Thursday morning. Catriona didn't go with Karl, Rudi and I when they were here but now she went and it turned out that she was very capable of the betting system and we had some fun and some small winnings.
Experts studying the Race schedule at Happy Valley Racecourse what has turned out to be one of the best pubs in Hong Kong with cheap beer and lots of people and fun. If you visit Hong Kong, you must go there just for the atmosphere.Stuck here in Hong Kong we had time to go out to see some of the things we haven't seen so far like the flower market, the goldfish market and the birds market. Like nearly all markets they are placed in Mong Kok and runs through several streets. The flower market is beauty full and over takes even the one in Amsterdam.
The goldfish market and the birds market are also impressive but for my point of view also very depressing so I don't really want to put any Photos on display here, if you visit Hong Kong you can judge for yourself, but here you have some Koi's and a Parrot.
The next days we are going to explore Lamma island, where they only have tractors, and we are going to Macau. So if you feel like it then stay tuned.Your Honkers exploring team.
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