We love Hong Kong. Tommorow we set off for China. I am really looking forward to this leg of our trip because every thing has be booked and organised for us, something that we are use too, and will give me 2 weeks off from planning and researching. For those that have never been to HK but planing too, 5-6 days are enough. Although we love it, each road is now blending into one, and when you can walk from one end of Nathan Road the the other, you know you'v covered just about most of what there is to see. As I said we have loved it here. The food is multi cultal from Chinese to Australian. From Turkish to KFC and I think we tried them all!! Last night, across the road from the hotel was our choice of resturant to eat in, a large family run place where it was so busy they drafted in the nans and grandads to help out, reminds me of valentine day in my flower shop!! It was fathers day so every table was packed with family's. All talking as they do fast and furiouse! The menu was in Chinese so we sat and watched what everyone else had, stemmed fish was the order of the day. We have got use to the fact that no meal comes complete with every dish at the same time, so the fish arrived on a large platter all hot and steaming with spring onions and lemon grass sprinkled on the top, umm it was lovely, once we started the rice arrived. If any one wants to know how to pick up rice with chopsticks, it's because the rice here is stickier than we eat at home.(we are so intent on rinseing out the starch, so that the rice is loose. After this week I realise that our rice is very bland and I think this is why!!) we striped the fish down to the bone, not speaking much, just enjoying the white flesh as we pull it away from its frame. When we had finished the steamed veg arrived! I craved for good old steamed greens, and what I think was "pac Chou" didn't disappoint, soft and crunchy at the same time, what a feast! Happy fathers day!!! Also today having left Bev in the hotel I took myself off to the Jade market, just down the end of our road. Wow the colours, the variety! I bet that most of you thought jade was just green, weeeeeell it is, but this market was an array of colours from the other semi precious stones also on sale, pink, gold, blue, white, red and it goes on. I don't suppose this market is of the top quality "jade" but definatly more expensive than the local markets. I had a field day. I ran my hand through the hundreds of strands of beads, all cold and shinny to touch. I picked up statues that were so heavy I couldnt even think of buying to post home. I tried on bracelet and necklaces, I was in my 7th heaven! Unfortunately for Bev I love to barter, so sometimes when I start, I get myself in a corner, and i have to buy, (fay would say that my house is full of tat that i have bought this way, but to me they are good memories) I have haggled so hard that I don't have the heart to say I don't really want it. So when they start of at 6-700hkd and they agree to sell it to me for 200hkd, I think I've got a deal! (just keeping in practice for when I get back to work, David would be proud of me!!!) I think it's one of the "qualities" that Bev likes in me, he trys bless him!! On my way back to the hotel I stopped to look in the Jade shops, not the shinny, don't touch shops, but the ones more like work shops. Huge chunks of Jade piled in the corner with counters full of pieces being strung together. In the corner of most, was a little old cutting machine where they produce thier magic, being Sunday and fathers day the machines were resting for the day, hopefully today I will wounder in to see a fellow craftsman at work. Today will be photo day.