After twenty-one days of close companionship for our travelling team, this day really presented the finale. So, after breakfast the remainder of our G Adventures group, now depleted to ten, gathered in our Hong Kong hotel foyer and said our last farewells. There was a reluctance to end this special journey combined with a sense of optimism and bonding with everyone offering promises of maintaining contact, swapping photos and maybe catching up again in the future.
We caught a taxi from Yau Ma Tei to where Bobbie’s apartment is at Hong Hum, a nearby suburb in Kowloon. Bobbie is on school holidays for four weeks, starting from today.
It was exciting to see Bobbie once again and although we’d been staying with her just three weeks ago, our adventures in China meant that there was a great deal to catch up on.
Bobbie’s washing machine was then brought into heavy-duty action and after we’d dealt with our laundry pile we headed off for a walk to get some lunch in a nearby Thai Restaurant. The mid-day conditions were hot and humid and the relief of cool drinks in an air-conditioned restaurant was welcomed.
Little duckling & Aqualuna junks, Hong Kong
View from Bobbie's apartment, Hung Hom, Hong Kong
G&T time with Bobbie, Hong Kong
The afternoon was spent relaxing, listening to music and watching Hong Kong Harbour below from Bobbie’s 29th floor apartment. In the early evening we went out for dinner at a waterfront restaurant where we had a delicious meal of Thai green curry, prawns, green vegies and kebabs that the three of us shared.
As we wearily headed home our last three weeks seemed to suddenly catch up with us and we were practically asleep before our heads hit the pillow.