WE ASKED A BUSKER FOR DIRECTIONS

　　Commerce seemed to be central to Hong Kong's existence which was odd as it is ruled Moncler Jackets by a communist government. I suppose that this odd mix of communism and capitalism is yet another manifestation of Hong Kong's recent British colonial history.After grabbing a bite to eat from one of the many stalls selling noodles in the street we ducked into an internet café, bought ourselves a cold drink and spent an hour emailing friends and families to let them know that we had arrived safely, were having a good time and that apart from the taxi debacle everything had gone pretty smoothly so far.When we got back out into the street, darkness was beginning to descend and so we decided to start making our way back to the hotel. We asked a busker for directions, partly because he was white and so there was a fair chance that he would speak English but mainly because he was playing some fantastic Hendrix style chops on a beautiful Fender Stratocaster and I wanted to have a closer look.

　　He pointed out where we were and where we needed to go on our tourist map and we began to make our way back across town. Unfortunately even with the moncler jackets for women had very little idea of where we actually were and proceeded to wander around fairly aimlessly for the next half an hour. This began to frustrate Faye who was worried that we would never find our way back to the hotel. She also seemed to be convinced that the map was some sort of forgery, printed by some maverick cartographer, eventually deciding that it was of less use to us in the situation than a copy of War and Peace, promptly screwed it up into a ball and deposited it in the nearest litter bin. I was slightly annoyed by this as I felt that if anything it would be detrimental to our predicament and I didn't particularly fancy chancing another taxi. Miraculously though, just around the next corner was the market we had visited the night before.Pleased by this unexpected providence we started to wind our way through the stalls towards our hotel. As we neared our destination it started to rain.

　　A kind of rain that neither of us had experienced before. A tropical rain. It seemed to arrive from nowhere, a torrential downpour that lasted nearly three quarters of an hour before stopping as suddenly as it had begun. It was warm but refreshing after the humidity we had been experiencing before and for a few hours after the air was fresher, sweeter and less stifling, cleared and temporarily refreshed by the rainfall.We stopped at a seven eleven on the way back and I grabbed a fresh packet of cigarettes and a couple of cabbage flavoured pot noodle type Moncler Men Maya Black Down Jacket snacks to eat (which although hardly 'cordon bleu' were not as disgusting as one might have expected them to be) before we made our way back to the hotel for a quick drink in the bar before bed as we had a plane to catch in the morning.A quick drink turned inevitably into a few more as we began to set a boozy precedent for ourselves which we were to studiously honour for the rest of the trip.

　　Eventually the barman politely reminded us that the bar was about to close and that if we wished to continue drinking then there was an excellent selection of beverages provided in the mini bar in our room. We duly obliged to his suggestion and headed upstairs where we spent what remained of our last night in Hong Kong watching the endless ebb and flow of the sleepless crowds as they ate, drank, shopped and generally did everything but sleep until we could keep our eyes open no longer and we finally turned in.In the morning we packed up our limited possessions and waited outside the hotel, where we had been told by the concierge that every half hour a bus would stop and pick up passengers en route to the airport.