Back to the Northern Hemisphere - HONG KONG

We arrived at Hong Kong airport about 15 minutes later than expected  at 5.30 in the afternoon. This is a very poor video of what greeted us in the foyer of the hotel.

On Saturday after breakfast we went in search of a Church with Mass in English. We found this, St. Jude's, about a 20 walk from the hotel. It was a very humid 31 degrees on the street but a nice "cool" 29 degrees inside Church.

Two shots taken from outside . The Church is on the 2nd floor. The rest of the building appears to be a school / college.

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The windows were predominantly green, hence the green cast to this shot

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This thermometer was tucked away in the shade of the side isle

In the afternoon we went into the city on the underground to do a bit of window shopping & to purchase me a ticket for the big rugby match in town that evening, The British & Irish Lions versus The Barbarians. Luckily we foind the ticket office & I was able to purchase one. As Anne didn't fancy going I took myself off to the game.

Pre match drinks in the hotel

Ticket in hand & donning a Welsh Rugby top i'm ready for the off.

Thirty minutes later, after a ride on the underground and a 10 minute walk I arrived at the ground.

Inside the ground I chose a seat as the teams were finishing their warm up session

It was a hot & very humid night with liquid refreshment a must. The order of the day was a 2ltr jug of lager. The video below was shot at half time.

The Welsh contingent set up in front of me complete with flag & daffodil head attire

The "bunch" of two daffs then became three.

Yes there was a game of rugby being played.

This is Lee from Portsmouth. He was in the next seat to me. I don' know if he was hungry or if he needed something to soak up the beer as he just produced these crisps out of the blue.

Game nearly over. Just as well as the jugs were just about empty

Can't tell you the final score but the Lions won. It was a tremendous atmosphere & possibly the best sporting event that I have attended. Quite brilliant.

Anne shot this video on Sunday, which is a re take of the not very good one of our arrival, at the beginning of this blog.

Chilling out in the foyer of the hotel

The harpist poses for a picture.