Alpha's Summer Adventure

[Corazon de Leon]

Hit up Tiananmen Square, and tell me what it's like. It's a place I've always wanted to go.

Watch out for the tanks though.

And Tenacious D.

"I'm gonna kick your ass, from here to Tiananmen Square..."

[Red Devil]

Hit up Tiananmen Square, and tell me what it's like. It's a place I've always wanted to go.

Watch out for the tanks though.

And Tenacious D.

"I'm gonna kick your ass, from here to Tiananmen Square..."

If you do go Alpha, why don't you ask the kids at Tienanmen square "was fashion the reason why they were there?".

[Orbital]

tiananmen square is strawberry floating massive. amazing.

[LewisD]

Why do you have a picture of James May in Tiananmen Sq. ?

[Hulohot]

Awesome, nice suprise. Look forward to the updates

[Tafdolphin]

Why do you have a picture of James May in Tiananmen Sq. ?

James May= me.

That's why I took it down.

[shas'la]

Temple street night market. DOIT.

[Jax]

Sounds amazing, Alpha. Wish I could go, maybe during a gap year I'll take a good look at the world. As far as I'm considered (and know of you) you're a very lucky person.

[tnman]

Ooh yay, more stories!

[Alpha eX]

Ooh yay, more stories!

There will be so much more going on this time, i'm very excited. Any chance of getting this thread stickied when it gets going?

[tnman]

Yeah I don't see why it would be a problem, just make sure to update it regularly.

[Alpha eX]

Minor update, just ordered my currency, applied for a Chinese Visa on Monday, pick both up tomorrow!

[shas'la]

Toy R us, Tsim Sha Tsui.

http://www.harbourcity.com.hk/
You cant miss it, its right next to the star ferry port.

Also while youre there go to grainville road near the park, has a tonne of clothes shops.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&cli ... 3&t=h&z=17

(From from Red D to Blue H.. also note the shopping centre is just above Red E.)

Wan chai 188 is immense for games and gashapona and stuff, google it.

Golden centre cheung sha wan is pretty much the same but worth a visit as well.

Whilest youre in Mong Kok area there is a street that just has shop that sells trainers its amazing how many differnt types of cons you will see.

http://www.hong-kong-travel.org/MongKok.asp

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Fa+Yuen ... 18&iwloc=A


This will come in handy

[Kinetic]

Good effort pal, HK is a great place, I'm sure you'll have fun. I'm not sure if there's really enough to do to take up all the time you're planning on spending there though, it'd definitely be worth trying to get to some other places. Have you thought about Macao? Only a ferry ride away, got the world's highest bungee, loads of casinos (all the Chinese hop the border to get their gambling fix) and some really nice Portugese architechture/history. You should definitely make a trip into China aswell. When you're that close it'd be stupid not to.

I should hopefully be heading to Tibet in a few weeks (Government permitting). Looking forward to it, despite the 2 day rail journey.

[Alpha eX]

01 - Leaving for HK
09-06-09

I finally crawled out of bed near 9am, nearly an hour and a half later than when I set my alarm for. I had a lot to do this morning, mostly packing and installing software for work on my formatted laptop. I was half asleep checking facebook when I saw this, "Tube strike! All plans must change" on someone's status. After some panic, it seems the strike starts at 7pm, perfect, because i'll be gone. If you ask me, they should have a team of backup workers who don't mind the conditions the others are protesting against.

My flight leaves at 18:35 so i've arranged to meet Antonia at 15:00 at the airport. She lives quite close so can take a cab and be there in 5 minutes, I live far and have to take a combination of London Transport and be there in around 2 hours.

I was very excited this morning so didn't make breakfast, had a large milkshake instead and slowly got round to packing. Getting everything sorted and packed took far too long, had to install a load of programs and copy work over to the laptop which didn't take to long but then the 95 vista updates took forever.

Everything is packed, i'm pretty much ready to go. Decided to wear smartish casual clothes because I won't be meeting the father till evening for dinner, whcih I am dreading very much. Antonia has assured me what i'm wearing (nice t-shirt, good jeans and smart/casual shoes) will be good enough, her mum isn't too bothered, it's the father that I have to impress.



Anyway, I'm off to the airport now, i'll try to continue with daily updates so check back tomorrow.

[Count Nood]

It begins.

[Drumstick]

Have fun!

I can't wait for all the updates and pictures again.

[Fatal Exception]

Good luck! Don't forget to try the soup.

[The People's ElboReformat]

Good luck alpha
I just got back last week from my own semi epic trip to new york, Connecticut, Nevada, Texas, Utah & Arizona

And you never shared any of that adventure with us?

I feel a little hurt, Brer.

[Denster]

Bring me back a pedobear!