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A day in the life
Gemma Brown learns Tai Chi and (almost) masters chopsticks
on a Hong Kong fam trip with Travel 2 and Cathay Pacific
07:00 Waking up in the Peninsula Hotel is an 13:00 It’s my turn to talk
experience I won’t forget in a hurry. My room about the Buddha and
has ceiling-to-floor windows looking out over surrounding area for the
the Hong Kong skyline. This beats the 12-bed Hong Kong film we’re making.
backpacker dorms I’m used to! But I need about 12 takes 18:30 After a well-deserved rest
before I finally deliver my lines back at our hotel we head out on
08:00 We head down to Victoria Harbour correctly, which Dave the the Star Ferry to take in the
where we have a Tai Chi lesson. It’s good fun cameraman doesn’t appreciate night view of Victoria Harbour
but hard work. Our masters are perfectly in in the boiling heat! and the city all lit up. Arriving at
time with each other but I can’t even grasp a Hong Kong Island, we take a
simple three-move routine. I’m not sure our 13:30 Lunch is at the Po Lin taxi to Sai Wan and jump on a
cameramen are finding it easy to film us: we Monastery, cooked by monks, tram which takes us around the
keep giggling as our instructor’s false teeth and is a tasty vegetarian dish. bustling city.
keep falling out!
15:30 We
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20:00 Dinner is at a noodle
11:15 We wander around look around bar. I’ve been trying to master the art of using
Tai O Fishing Village Gemma the monastery, which is chopsticks since we arrived and tonight I think
checking out the seafood
Brown
peaceful and colourful, I have finally got it. Then again, maybe not –
stalls. I don’t like the Age: 26 before moving on to I’ve just thrown my dinner down my dress!
look of the dried fish; Job title: Travel Ngong Ping village for
they are all shrivelled consultant a spot of shopping. 21:30 Back at the hotel we hit the bar. The live
and crispy but still have Works for: Freedom Australia music is brilliant, with people swinging each
their eyes – yuck! based in Hertford 16:00 We take the Ngong other around the dance floor! We enjoy a few
How long in the job: 18 months Ping 360 cable car back to too many cocktails and eventually retire to bed.
12:15 Our coach journey to How long in travel: 18 months! ground level at Tung
the Giant Buddha is really Best thing about your job: Chung. It’s got a glass
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