KOWLOON SHOPPING - NOV 2, 2012

KOWLOON, HONG KONG ISLAND - FRIDAY NOV 2, 2012

Another day of walking our feet off!  We started with breakfast on the 20th floor terrace in the Club Lounge overlooking all the activity in Victoria Harbour.  Then it was the shuttle to  the Kowloon Hotel and a leisurely walk along Nathan Street (where one end is very high end jewellry stores to the other end, very Chinese and lower priced local goods).  Most of the stores don't open until at least 10am so we had all the time in the world. We bought nail polish in a variety of colours at "Bonjour", then after meeting up with Brenda and Mary Lou we all stopped for coffee and milk shakes at the 24 hour McDonalds (and a bathroom break as well!).  

We arrived at 12 noon at the "Ladies Market" which runs from 12 noon until 5pm every day - and found that better than 50% of the stalls were just setting their goods up for sale - so a slow walk through took us 2 hours!  We did buy a couple of miscellaneous items (purse, belt, watch) buy by 2pm our feet and knees were complaining so we took the MRT underground rail transit system at the Yau Ma Tei station back down Nathan to the Tsim Sha Tsui station ($4 HK each).  After debating, we decided to walk over to the Harbour City Centre (huge 3 level shopping mall with every high end store you can imagine).  Unfortunately after walking in circles a couple of times we concluded that we couldn't find the food we fancied, the price we were willing to pay - or the restaurant we were looking for!  So we caught the shuttle back to the Harbour Plaza Metropolis and went for afternoon tea (with cookies and chocolates) in the Club Lounge- where we met up with some of the group and shared an hour chatting on the outdoor deck.  That's when we found out the sad story about one of the others in the group  having their wallet, credit cards, and money stolen this afternoon. More than one hour later they were still on the phone to the credit card companies getting them cancelled - such a sad way to finish 28 wonderful days in Singapore, Borneo, Bali and Hong Kong.