2.30am Sat Oct 20: I'm in a Hong Kong internet cafe where it is perfectly acceptable to blast out internet music on high-quality Creative speakers at extreme volume - so right now I'm giving the neighbourhood a pumping trance lesson with assistance from the awesome http://www.di.fm/. It's going off! I'm in a doubly-great mood as I've just knocked back an amzing mango juice-jelly-ice-cream combination...superlatives cannot do it justice.
HK is a brilliant city - a forest of skyscrapers, harbour to rival Sydney and very busy, pretty fashionable and about 2/3 the price of England. Had a couple of jaw-dropping jogs past Tai Chi hot-spot Victoria Park and along the promenade.
Stumbled across the hostel I stayed in here three years ago when travelling with Andy Worden (the really thin guy from my uni); hostel is smack bang in the middle of the action and nice apart from rather bizarrely having a used toilet brush on the kitchen sideboard. The Peak is the famous mountain overlooking the city and it's a really staggering view on the few days it's not cloudy.
Picked up a great portable DVD player in Bangkok plus 16 top-quality #1.30 DVDs...so Nati's loving that...thank God I managed to persuade her not to buy the entire 35-DVD Sex and the City back catalogue.
Been away a month now but feels like three or four months. Really loving travelling. Seen a lot already with Verona, Venice, day in Madrid, Egypt, five days in Bangkok and HK...going to Japan on Sunday after a hopefully-epic Saturday night featuring one of HK's best club's house music launch night followed by 3am RWC final (we're seven hours ahead of UK).
Thanks for emails to Nati and I - we both love hearing from family and friends. Drop us a line to say hi and let us know how things are in England/Peru/Israel/Anglesey!/elsewhere.
Take care and thanks for reading.
Ali
