Top stories published by Ben Brown — My Personal Blog in 2006

Today I awoke to a fairly sunny day with a few clouds around in the sky. Visibility across the harbour was quite bad and you couldn’t really see too much of Kowloon. After our normal breakfast of cereal and buns (today I had hotdog sausage, tartar sauce and…

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Sep 9, 2006

Hong Kong Trip — Day 6 — The Calm after the storm

We awoke early this morning as Sunny was coming to the hotel at 10.30am to meet us and take us for our last day in Macau. When he arrived we walked for 5 minutes to a local bakery / cafe that served the traditional Portuguese custard tart. This…

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Sep 18, 2006

Hong Kong Trip — Day 15 — Buffet Day

This morning we woke up fairly late, today we were not going out in the morning and so after our hectic day yesterday we stayed in bed for a while, but were still tired when we got up! After a light breakfast we got ready, for lunch today we were going out with a…

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Sep 7, 2006

Hong Kong Trip — Day 4 Evening — Hong Kong Nightlife

This evening we were off to see Clara’s friends from University and have a meal and some drinks in Causeway Bay. The evening began with a 15 minute bus ride on the 23 down the hill to Central and along the main road to Causeway Bay. At…

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Sep 12, 2006

Hong Kong Trip — Day 9 — Typhoon Signal №1

This morning I awoke with a bit of a sore throat. Inevitably after living with Clara and Polly who had both been ill over the last couple of days, some of the illness had started to wear off on me and I wasn’t feeling brilliant! I had a breakfast of…

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Sep 5, 2006

Hong Kong Trip — Day 2 — Hong Kong in your Face

I awoke at 7.30am feeling partly refreshed but still a little jaded after the journey. Sleeping wasn’t too difficult, despite the 30 degree heat, as air conditioning comes as standard everywhere in Hong Kong and boy wasn’t I glad! After a…

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Sep 14, 2006

Hong Kong Trip — Day 11 Evening — Earthquake

This evening we are going for Singaporean cuisine with Clara’s cousin Bonnie and her Singaporean husband Jean. We took a number 23 bus down the hill to Wan Chai close to where the meal would be. We stopped off in a local bakery to get some buns for…

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Sep 6, 2006

Hong Kong Trip — Day 3 — Religion and the Family

I awoke this morning still feeling tired, but feeling less jet lagged. After breakfast Clara needed to visit her Grandma in her nursing home in Kowloon. Clara’s mum Polly was coming along to show us the way as Clara hasn’t been in a long time.

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Sep 12, 2006

Hong Kong Trip — Day 9 Evening — Lan Kwai Fong

This evening we went out for a meal in a Shanghai cuisine restaurant close to the bottom of the hill in an area called Lan Kwai Fong. This area is basically the area of most bars and is mostly full with people having a drink after work, and also…

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Sep 16, 2006

Hong Kong Trip — Day 13 Evening — Korean BBQ

This evening we went out with Clara’s parents for a Korean meal. The restaurant was called Korea Garden Restaurant and is situated in Central. We took a taxi to the restaurant and got out outside the Wing On department store (Clara calls this the…

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