Today has been super hot (although I do think it’s only around 30degreesC), and we walked up hill (plus around a million stairs!) to Hong Kong park. Blaghgh, not fun. Therefore we were made of fail and had to bail on Beckie, we’d planned to go up to the Peak in the evening but we were more or less dead! Anyway, tomorrow we’ll take it easy, rest up, and then on Saturday we’re going on a hike (I’m told it’ll be not so strenuous! this heat is killing us if we have to do anything more than stroll!). Due to our ridiculous heat fatigue we ended up eating at a couple of chain places again (yoshinoya and cafe de coral), although to be fair it’s just basic rice and meat dishes (at cafe de coral) and ramen/noodles (yoshinoya) which is sometimes all you want. For two ‘rice with roast duck’ and drinks at cafe de coral it was $68 (about £6.50), and for two chicken with kelp ramen at yoshinoya it was a measly $36 (£3.50). Existing in Hong Kong on a budget is super easy… Oh! We also got some sweet buns for breakfast that were less than 40p each!

I also got kinda weirded out by this poster so had to take a photo (this was right by an aviary, so it’s not completely random). The health notices seem to be pretty regular in HK, be it hand washing, preventing flu (mainly swine right now), telling people not to spit ‘please wrap your spittle’, ‘this handrail is disinfected 4 times a day’ honestly, if that was the UK it would read ‘this handrail is disinfected never, in fact, we probably wipe it with a cloth that’s 10x dirtier than it’. I dunno, is it our goverment being kinda lax with health issues? I mean, I know HK is pretty (read, VERY) scared about health issues since the SARs outbreak… or is it a bit over the top? I think we might go look at those people locked in that hotel tomorrow.