The promised rain arrived during the night with crashing thunder, violent lightning and a torrential downpour. By morning the storm had largely passed but it was still raining. Given that we had some tricky navigation to find our way back to the car rental depot and that the weather was clearly not about to improve we abandoned any ides of scenic routes and took the direct route back to Sydney.
I made a new friend at a petrol station when another customer asked me if I knew whether or not the local Woolworths ( a large OZ supermarket chain) was open today. I explained that I was from England and that sadly Woolworth's were definitely no longer open there. He then explained that his daughter was working in a pub in London and was very keen to know my view on whether London was a safe city or not. I told him that London was a great city and he should not worry. After a reasonably long conversation I made it back to the car where the lovely lady wife was looking concerned at the length of my absence.
On then to Sydney Airport and to find the car hire depot which when we left it seemed to be in an area of small one way streets intersected by several very busy roads populated with drivers who would rival those in London for aggressive driving. The LLW has clearly honed her navigational skills of late and we had a faultless journey back to the car hire place. Will probably now dispense with sat navs and in any case the LLW has a much nicer voice than that woman on the sat nav.
Loads of time to spare when we arrived at the airport and now enjoying the lounge facilities before our Virgin flight to Hong Kong.
A very good flight slightly spoiled by a very irritating entertainment system and the LLW came close to throwing things on a couple of occasions Pretty much on time into Hong Kong and we quickly found a taxi which very speedily took us to our hotel in Kowloon just across the water from Hong Kong island! Our first sight of Hong Kong was of course at night and it is quite spectacular.
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