Hong Kong expat lifestyle

Well, I've really started my holiday now and have been living the life of luxury for the past few days.  My last post was a lazy Friday recharging after transit and that night I headed into central HK for Friday night knockoff with the expats.  I had a few beers with some old friends of Steve's (who I have met in various places around the world)  Cormac and Phil.  After a quick burger Steve's wife Louise came in to meet us and we headed to a nightclub/bar where one of their neighbours was playing in a battle of the bands.  There wew nine bands playing and the winner will go on to represent China in a world wide competition...  It was pretty fun but I'm not sure if the neighbours band (called Uranus) will go onto represent China particulaly as they consisted of 5 big (or in their words - overweight) Englishmen.  It's been a long time since I had so many drinks and it was fun sitting up with Steve and talking rubbish till 4am - until the next day!

Things turned out alright though as the next day Charlie (Steve and Lou's oldest son) had swimming lessons so I went down and spent the day at the country club by the pool.  It was nice and relaxing and great to cool off in the pool and recover.  I heard a number of the expats say both on Friday night and Saturday that "once you have lived in HK it's hard to move anywhere else..  If you are here for 3 years you probably won't leave".  Expats and wealthy locals can buy memberships to local clubs and it is a bit like being in a holiday resort all year round..

Sunday we had a bit of the Typhoon weather washing over us so it's been pretty rainy.  This morning we went down to Sai Kung which is a local fishing village and it was interesteing to see all the old junks and boats in the harbour.  There were some pretty interesting seafood restaurants too.  As the rain kicked in we popped up to Murray and Laura house (in the same block) to watch Murrays team Manly in the Rugby League Grand Final - they smashed Melbourne so he was pretty happy.   It's raining pretty heavy tonight but hopefully the weather will clear for Tuesday.