Bye Bye Hong Kong - Hello Sydney

So…. Our last morning in HK was spent packing, organizing, and mainly eating!

To make up for last night’s inexplicable transgression into McD – (can’t believe I even admitted to that one!!) – we had a substantial (and much needed) lunch  in  Tutto Benne – Italian food found on our favourite Knutsford Terrace, captured our attention today.

First, a Spinach and Fig Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing for me; and  a Chicken Caesar Salad for M’Lord.

This was followed by Veal Consomme for me, and Clam Chowder for Sir ….. no pics for this course – hard to make soup look exciting - but was yummy!

Prima piatti was Chargrilled Salmon with Bearnaise Sauce for me – done to perfection – pink inside and succulent

And Veal Scallopini with Mushroom, Sage and Marsala Sauce for Monsieur – he didn’t talk much, so guess it was OK!

Pud was a small but perfect square of Choc and vanilla cheesecake with fresh fruit on the side,   followed by coffee

All for $246 HK – around £22 for both of us  (excepting beer and wine of course  - which always has the potential to rack up the prices!)

 A most satisfactory end to a really great 4 days in Hong Kong

Hope we’ve now managed to rescue our reputation after yesterday’s unaccountable slip into the comfort, ease, but plastic and e-numbered McD!

Sadly, although we tried hard, were both unable to bring ourselves to dine a la Chinese at any point during our stay! Tried to get excited about a few menus / resturants, but all looked  just SO plastic, unappetizing and . artificial. Both feel really quite guilty – but not enough to overcome our base instincts. Maybe we still have a learning curve to conquer here!

So, have now just arrived in OZ – after a very stressful afternoon yesterday spent trying to obtain last minute visas, as only discovered they were necessary once we tried to check in, just 50 mins before the gate closed! Arghhh!

What WOULD we have done without the laptop / internet to bail us out. Thank-you Mr Gates.

Leaving you with our last shots of HK ride to and airport.

 E

Now hoping to sleep  as soon as we can get into our hotel room,  then  explore Sydney before  catching  up tomorrow with Matt Walters and Chris Yong – Matt’s friends from AMV.