Category — Hong Kong

Hong Kong didn’t get off to the best start.  We hadn’t even gotten out of the arrivals terminal when we realised we were missing Georgie’s Goretex jacket.  She had to think back to where she’d last had it and worked out she had left it in the bathroom at the luggage carousel.  Great!  That was
on the other side of Customs – there was no way they were going to let us through but I asked security if someone could just walk the 40 metres or so and grab it for us. 

Of course that would be too easy – no you had to go to the 7th floor and fill out a lost property form in triplicate and then maybe in a month or two they might contact us.  Paul (aka Frank) decided that the Customs guy wasn’t being as helpful as he could have been and with Georgie providing the added incentive of standing there crying helplessly, he convinced Customs to get
on his radio and get someone to check the bathroom.  Luckily for us it was still there and within  30 minutes we had the jacket back.

By the time we did all that, got tickets on the airport bus and actually rode to Kowloon, it was almost midnight and we were exhausted.  [Read more →]