Kicking my heels in Hong Kong airport...

Well, Hi.

Here I am after three days of noodles, green tea and generally being laughed at (along the lines of 'hey, check out this idiot over here clearly trying to use chopsticks for the first time') and sitting in Hong Kong airport waiting for my flight to Sydney.

That said, Hong Kong is awesome - truly fantastic - and three days is no time at all to explore all it has to offer. The light show across the bay at night simply has to be seen to believed and the same can be said for the view from atop the highest point on the island, known locally simply as 'The Peak' - a staggering vista of skyscrapers stretching as far as the eye can see, looking for all the world like God's own Jenga set balanced precariously on the hillsides all around.

As a European, restaurants were picked more on the basis of which ones printed their menus in English as well as Cantonese, and of the food particularly mouth-watering were the Dim Sum  peppered pork balls and noodles and 'dumplings with barbecued pork' - a stodgy Golf Ball of a mess that made no sense at all until paired with the accompanying barbecued meat.

If you're a Londoner or have ever spent any significant time in London and you think Oxford Street gets busy, then think again. The Kowloon streets at night make central London look like some remote Scottish Island serviced only by a supply ship/ferry once a week. With street hawkers acosting you at every turn, curious as to whether you would appreciate a new timepiece or tailored suit, (despite the fact that I quite clearly had a watch already around my wrist and patently did not have the requisite funds for a tailored suit) takeaway eateries of all types, musicians, crowds spilling out of the over-burdened Metro and double-decker London style buses lurching round every other corner. Add to this a humidity of the like I've never felt before and you have a potent mix. A heady, intoxicating brew like strong coffee cut with crack and lighter fluid.

Tsingtao wasn't bad either.

I'll be back.