My least favourite places

Hong Kong, China : This tiny little territory, formerly belonging to the UK, seems to attract just as much interest as mainland China and for the life of me I cannot see why. Everything about Hong Kong is crammed into the city, leaving very little else where. As a result, it is busy, polluted and basically substandard - in places it is little more than a building site. Nothing but high end accommodation is worth considering unless you don't mind slumming it a little, where here slumming it a little does not mean you don't mind a hostel. There are nice hostels, just not here.Even worse, there is no culture here, not unless you count business as culture. There are a few points of interest of course but not enough to sustain my interest and definitely not at the rate it was costing me! I probably shouldn't compare it to mainland China and not just because it will never live up to it. Useful for getting a visa into China but other than that, there are far superior destinations.

I'll give it this, it provides a nice cityscape!

Sihanoukville, Cambodia :  My reasons for disliking Sihanoukville, a beach resort in the South of Cambodia, are really nothing short of a bad experience (e.g. concussed travel buddy and glass in another's dinner). The fact that it rained almost without stopping wasn't what put me off either. Mostly it's the spider. Finding myself about a foot away from a spider which could rival a dinner plate suitable for Hagrid (no word of a lie the thing was gigantic and it's making my skin crawl just thinking about it) was enough to make me want to place the whole town in Room 101. Also the attitude here towards women is horrendous - to the point where my belongings where snatched from my hands and thrown on the floor by an angry tuk-tuk driver because although we were arguing about the price, he  hadn't liked that the one male in our trio was not the one doing the bartering. All in all there was an overall sense of unpleasantness though the cocktail buckets on the beach make up for breaking my camera - again.

London, UK Showing my true colours as a northern lass, I just can't make myself like the capital city. True enough I haven't spent much time there (it's quite possible that I've spent more time in Charles de Gaulle airport) and maybe it's a grower but the place just hasn't won me over yet. It seems ridiculously overpriced to me. I know, I know, it's London but when you spend more on transport IN London than you did getting there, you know it's expensive. Also, people just don't seem friendly or helpful, rather in a rush and stressed out. No-one stops to help the lady with the oversized suitcases trying to get down the stairs or lets the old couple sit down on the tube (massive generalisation I'll admit). I'll also concede that London has plenty of attraction, not all of which will set you back a small fortune. I quite enjoyed the Tate Gallery. In all honestly, I don't see how it's going wrong but... I just don't like London