Humble beginnings

The Journey begins!

Everyone else going started packing ages ago apart from me and Steve. We are generally pretty rouge but will our maverick behaviour finally catch up with us?

After sorting out the bank in Hong Kong and a travel card all I needed was some HK dollar to hand. To make funds for this I sold my table tennis table, climbing gear and Xbox :( it was a sad almost devastating moment selling the Xbox as me and Chris had been playing on-line pretty much every other night. I was planning to sell the Xbox just a few days before we arrived in HK but  with 10 days to go after Thumping Chris 6-1 on fifa he sold his within 10 minutes. I tried to keep playing but it just wasn't the same and I can only handle a few fat Americans swearing at me all the time. I managed to get £150 for the Xbox which combined with the other money gave me some decent cash.

 Before I could even get some Dollar my parents and family supplied me with enough to last a decent time. This meant I now had about £200 spare to myself. My final night out suddenly had a much much larger budget. My final night started with meeting a few friends for a standard beer and burger at spoons, the banter was flowing freely and it had the possibility of being a grand old time. That possibility became slightly diminished when we visited Bargain Booze to get some beverages for pre drinks. Not one of the classiest establishments, I was picking up gone off cider for knock down prices. After making it back to our mates house with a large selection of alcohol we started drinking games. Pyramid was the first game and the mood suddenly changed no one wanted to be the first drunk. Sadly as it was my last night I was being picked on quite a lot and after 4 cans of cider I needed a TC. The burger came up rather splendidly and reminded me that I 100% need to chew my food more. When we arrived in town most my work friends were now out. Sadly my good friend and gym buddy Karol was to drunk to get in. His strong Borat/Polish accent was not helping the situation with the bouncer, he kept shouting at the bouncer claiming he was mean...After 5 minutes of unsuccessfully getting him in I put him in a taxi home, we had are first casualty. The night then picked up with some major shapes being busted on the dance floor and everyone having a pretty good time. At about 2-3am as usual I wanted to go on walkabouts so I grabbed my best bud Leo and Jess and headed off to Jakes (a fine food establishment) to get some hot food. I got a mammoth ham and chips baguette which unlike the Burger stayed down. My final night in Plymouth was over and I managed to hold in the tears.

The last Sunday in England I had that very English meal one final time Chinese.
My final few days in England have been spent buffing up in the gym and getting ready for HK. Today I went town for the final time to try and get a present for my parents who have done a fine job raising me. After not finding anything appropriate as a gift I decided I deserved a treat, 3 albums and 3 tops later I got my parents a thank you card.
I am going for one final meal with my parents tonight before driving up to London tomorrow ready for the flight on Wednesday.

My packing has started about 30 minutes ago, its not going great with my mum wanting to iron everything and me wanting to take everything but this is the challenge I have left myself. Wish me luck and my next entry will be about the flight and arrival in Hong Kong!