An Afternoon in Repulse Bay

     Repulse Bay is probably the most affluent beach I’ve been to (though there are plenty of other fancy places in Hong Kong) – while the others were backed by tiny, rustic feeling villages, Repulse has a host of expensive shops and luxurious looking hotels and houses. Normally I do prefer the more isolated places, but as it wasn’t a weekend or holiday, it was still pretty quiet – although the hoards of tourist flooding off their coaches to take photos for 20 minutes before leaving again got pretty annoying, especially when they tried to take photos of us (this actually happens a lot here). However, we managed to have a nice day, despite this. Although it was a fancier area, it meant everything was very pretty and clean and we felt as if we were on holiday. I arrived a bit later than the other girls, so skipped out on swimming (I love the ocean, but hate the faff of changing afterwards etc, so it wasn’t worth it when they’d already been in), but still had plenty of time there to enjoy the beach. Mostly we stuck to lazing on the sand, enjoying the November sun, but we also went for a walk along the front, in search of food. A lot of places were out of our budget, but we ended up getting some great, fresh, free range chicken sandwiches from a place called ‘Chicken on the Run’, which were reasonably priced.