Hong Kong was experiencing a heat wave. As such, I was experiencing a heat wave. One of the 4 days we had there was a real-feel of 46 degrees. What I'm saying is, Hong Kong did not get a fair chance.

But we had limited time, so out we went to schlep around in the baking heat (and humidity, let us not forget the humidity).

My favourite thing in Hong Kong was the villain hitting. Under a bridge, there's a group of women with candles and incense. You pay them, they give you a piece of paper on which you can write the name of your nemesis. Then they beat the piece of paper with a shoe and throw it into a fire. So if you've recently come upon grave misfortune and you consider yourself my enemy, you might have just solved the mystery. But I hope you're enjoying my blog nonetheless.

One of the weirdest things about Hong Kong is how interconnected all the shopping centres are. Is it actually one giant shopping centre? You go into a shopping centre, walk for several miles, over several bridges, maybe underground to the metro, through a few tunnels, and come out in a different shopping centre. I'm not sure how anyone could ever truly figure out navigating the system of shopping centres. But it was a huge relief when we were there because all the indoor parts are air conditioned. So we spent a lot of time in this strange shopping centre world.

There's a famous apartment block called the Monster Building. You stand in the middle and look up and it feels like thousands of towering windows reaching up above you. It is quite something to behold on your way to a shopping centre.

I was advised by the Internet to go to this nice park in the city that had some temples in it. That was all fine, except it was 40 degrees and we just could not find the exit. When we finally accepted that we were going to die in this nice park, we finally found our way out and collapsed into a Seven Eleven to buy more iced tea. I drank so much iced tea on this trip. They're really into iced tea.

Unable to face another day outdoors, or any more nice parks, we went to the M+ museum. I know nothing about art but this was a staggeringly impressive concrete gallery with enough free exhibits to keep you out of the baking heat for at least 3 hours.

What I really wanted to see was the neon. The neon, as it turns out, has largely been replaced by LEDs. But that's fine, it was just the effect I wanted to see. There are a lot of neon-lit streets but when you're close-up it's a lot less Blade Runner than I had imagined.

We also went to a massive electronics market. I love these. I bought a lot of strange adapters I might end up using one day.