The strange findings of a street walker

After dinner at our new, favourite Nepalese haunt, we decided to roam the streets and explore the Temple Street night market, which is the same as every other market - tat.

However, on our way we came across this huge fish being dangled of a crane. Yes, a crane! As you can see from the photo, this fish was bloody massive!!

I wonder how much the restaurant paid??

The local area of Hung Hom

We have now moved into our apartment. Woohoo!!! Today I explored the local area, Hung Hom, and it is way better than I expected.

Cheap food markets, good range of restaurants and quite a few good shops.

Here are some photos and the view from my apartment window.

Just around the corner...

Tonight we went for a Nepalese curry at our new favourite restaurant located in Kowloon. After, when walking to the MTR, we strolled across this.

Something is always going on in Hong Kong no matter what corner your turn around.

New appreciation for the NHS

Two weeks in and we are onto our seventh bedroom. Yes seventh (7th). Not only is this a joke, but I have just been skinned $880 (£80) for a five day supply of Amoxiclav antibiotics. These are times when you forget just how amazing the NHS is. It cost me $480 to see a doctor (£40) then about £7 for the actual tablets, then $340 (£30) to get my pee tested. Really!!!??? I know what I have, just give me drugs. No pee test. Yes pee test. Talk about shafting.

Today I have discovered why you need private medical insurance and how expensive medical treatment in Hong Kong is.

For the rest of the week I shall be living on bread buns from a Chinese bakery and staying in my room to watch Cantonese TV. At least once we move our bags tonight, that's it till we move in to our new apartment on Saturday.

Hurry up Saturday!!!!

Market land

Here is Hong Kong they love markets. From flowers to goldfish they have a market for everything. I am still to come across a market for home decor goods - the one I really want and need.

I have so far visited the goldfish market, ladies market, flower market, Temple Street night market and some other random one near the gold fish market. Here are some of my images.

Kowloon Park

What a cool place this is. Nestled in the heart of Kowloon, just off Nathan Road, you can venture into the aviary to check out a range of tropical birds, visit the duck ponds that is home to the funky, pink flamingos, or take your bikini to bask in the sun at the huge public swimming pool. It's only €19 entry fee into the pool. Here's some pictures of this brill park.

Great advertising

On my walks today, after eating what I now think was snake, I discovered the Hong Kong History Museum. It was closed but I am definitely going to make a trip back based on the cool advertising they had for one of their exhibitions. I am thinking that there may be some terracotta warriors inside. What do you think?

Hong Kong waffle

It's all about the waffles in Hong Kong. You can't pass a street corner without seeing the bubble shaped treats. While they are good, my advice would be to take a leaf out of Buddy the elf's book and add some maple syrup. Now that would be good!!

Honkers is Bonkers!

We have arrived in Hong Kong and for the last four days, we have been exploring and getting to know the city, mainly on the MRT.

We are staying in a box. When I say box, I mean match box compared to a normal room in the UK. It is pretty hideous but hey, that's what Hong Kong is all about right?? Soaking up the local way of living... This is what I keep telling myself.

Beyond the box, this city is crazy. I don't know where everyone comes from as Hong Kong is small. But then again, if they all live in a match box like us, I get it. Rabbit warrens!!

The food is cheap and relatively good if you eat local. As I write this, I'm tucking into fried noodles with what is supposed to be chicken but tastes more like dog. Not that I have ever tasted dog, or have any intentions to, but if I did, I would imagine it would taste like this.

The apartment hunt is not going too well. We have lost out on some nice apartments overnight so it's crazy. Now if I see it, I like it then it's mine!!!

Our bank accounts are sorted. I love you HSBC Premier! So easy to work with and amazing headquarters.

Jobs - I have had a number of interviews this week already so anyone PR job hunting in Hong Kong, it is not that bad if you have good experience. I have had an offer and am waiting to hear back from a few more so fingers crossed. I have probably just jinxed it.

Overall it is good and interesting getting to know the city and how things work. I have figured that the locals have no spacial awareness what so ever, so for me (being a M&S lunch time basher in the UK) this is the most frustrating part of the city so far. They like to walk turtle pace reading their phones and are not aware that there may be a person/ bin/ lamp post in front of them.

That's it for now. Wifi is not great in the city so I will upload more posts and photos when I can.

Off on the apartment trawl again. Sweat, sweat, sweat! I better be losing weight.

The calm before the storm...

So it's the last week before the big move and I've just returned from a semi-relaxing holiday in the South of France at my mum's house and in Italy on the Amalfi Coast. I say semi-relaxing because you can't really relax when your about to move to the other side of the world, you have not tackled packing yet and you have to work all week up to the day before you go.

This week will be manic. Will I get any work done? I doubt it as the brain will be wondering and I will most likely be dreading the long haul flight. One to Dubai then to Hong Kong. Maybe if I was flying business or first I wouldn't be dreading it too much. Emirates - if you are reading this, please upgrade me at check-in!! ;-)

Aim of the packing game - only take what I definitely need and roll, roll, roll. Will my life fit in a 30kg baggage allowance??? Time will tell. I doubt it.

The expat journey begins...

So the journey begins and I have already used my most hated word - 'journey'. But having thought about it, this is like a journey that will most likely have a lot of bumps on the way - times of emotional hysteria, home sickness, anticipation but a lot of excitement.

So how have I got to this point? Having been with 'The Boy' for almost seven years and grown out off Newcastle upon Tyne, England, we have decided to take the leap, while we are still relatively young and child-free, to seek new adventures in a greener and hotter land - Hong Kong.

'The Boy' has got a teaching post at an International school in Kowloon and I will be leaving a career that I have worked hard to achieve to be jobless in Hong Kong. Daunting! My main priority: get a job!

As I write this blog, we have less than two months till the big move and a lot to do.

• Visa
• Book flights
• Pack up over six years of our life and put it into storage
• Decide what is going to be lucky enough to make it to Hong Kong with us
• Leave a flat that has become a part of us, our home
• Set up bank accounts
• Visit the doctor
• Visit the dentist
• Inform Inland Revenue
• Inform Student Loans Company
• Fly to Belfast to say a farewell to loved ones
• FIND A PR JOB IN HONG KONG

It is fare to say that at the minute, this is how I feel:

The Hong Kong attraction

I have always been attracted by the bright lights of a city and since visiting Hong Kong for the first time in 2006, I made it my mission to eventually end up living there.


Six years later and the mission has, thankfully, not been impossible and a dream is very quickly becoming reality. This blog is me sharing my fear and excitement of relocating to the other side of the world to live out what will hopefully be one of the best adventures of my life.


From relocation plans, new adventures, Hong Kong fashion and food, and my path into a PR career, I aim to record the next two years of my life to look back on when wrinkled and old (if computers still exist then).


I hope you enjoy joining me on a new chapter of my life and can learn some tips, whether it be good food establishments to try out or what it's like to be an expat in Hong Kong.


Enjoy!