Off To Oz!

All to brief a time in Hong Kong. All. Too. Brief. What a place. The people, the hotels, the food, the service, the sights. We will be back, and this time we'll be making bloomin' sure that the cable car to the monastery is running.

We're due to fly onto Sydney this afternoon, so we managed yet another relaxing and extensive breakfast in the executive lounge (the view from which can be seen above), followed by a rather frustrating search for nappies in the shopping mall under the hotel. Long story short, they seem not to do nappies in Hong Kong. What they offer as an alternative, I know not, but - in yet one more example of why the Four Seasons Hong Kong has to be up there as 'Best Hotel In the Whole God Damned World' - we enquired as to the availability of nappies with the staff at the lounge and, you guessed it, five minutes later they came up with the goods. I don't know where from. I don't know how they do it. I want to live in this hotel forever.

But, of course, we can't. Our car is due to take us out to the airport in little more than an hour and we've got the 10 hour flight to Sydney ahead of us. It's going to be tough to leave though. This is one hell of a fantastic hotel in one hell of a fantastic city. Hong Kong, Victoria Harbour, Kowloon, Mongkok (oh, and Disney, I suppose). There aren't enough superlatives to describe it and Australia is really going to have to put some hard work in if it's going to rival this place.

They're just setting out the third 'food presentation' of the day here in the executive lounge. It's incredible; the grub just keeps on coming. Breakfast is followed by morning coffee, which is followed by some kind of lunch offering, followed by afternoon tea. Then there's cocktails and aperitifs. Then there's something else, I lose track. If it wasn't for the fact that there's so much to see and do in and around Hong Kong, you could quite easily stay up here in the lounge all day and get fat and drunk (Veuve Clicquot is on tap all day, so the latter would be far too easy to manage).

We had a wander around the spa and pool (which we've been far to busy to take advantage of) before heading back up here. It's stunning. So beautiful. Next time we're here (and there will be a next time, be sure of that) we must make use of the pool if nothing else.

Ah well, best pack the Mac and have glass of the afore mentioned bubbly before the car comes. Next time you hear from me we should be in the Southern Hemisphere. I wonder if the water really does go the other way down the plug hole. Only one way to find out...