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I'm a Diver

It was last day to certification of the PADI OW course. With exam taken, we only needed to complete 2 more dives, with intermittent skill practices of course, before we became a diver.

We should have been very assured but psycologically there is still some pressure. It was just like running to the finish line and being afraid to tumble for no reason. M was not feeling well, which was kind of expected, but the situation was much better than the day before.

At breakfast I took only ham and bread, and used only 1/4 of the butter, to avoid stomach problem. We had plenty of time left which allowed me to finish luggage packing well.

It rained cats and dogs the night before, with many lightings. The door front was all wet.

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The Exam

The pressure of exam became immediate and we did not sleep well. We woke up a bit later than normal, at about 7:10am. M was nervous and needed one piece of toast for breakfast, while I still have my full American one. Somehow M was given 2 pieces of toasts and since I didn't have extremely good appetite, I made a bacon and sandwich with M's extra toast and some of my own food. Ellen gave me a ziploc bag to contain it.

As expected we spent the morning watching videos again, checked the review for chapter 4 and 5 with Eriko. During all these some hotel guests or divers used the balcony to go internet and someone shut the sliding doors opening into the balcony to prevent the noise of our video (and on the other way, those hotel guests' conversation also distracted us). Lacking ventilation from sea breeze, the video room became a bit hot and stuffy. Maybe this and other psycological effect, M developped anxiety syndromes again.

Eriko showed us where we can buy sea-sick pills. There in the store I saw hair conditioner in small foil packs, which my hair desperately wanted. I didn't hesitated a second to buy 2 packs. These and 2 sea-sick pills costed only P50.

We went back to the hotel and had light lunch with ham and cheese sandwich, each taking half of it, and a dressing soaked ceasar salad with hard boiled egg and bacon chip, which hardly resembles the genuine thing. We only finished half the salad, but since I took the bacon and egg sandwich I made on the way to the store I took the bacon and egg sandwich I made, I was feeling a bit stuffed.

M took a sea-sick pill and a dose of panadol after lunch. But soon afterwards M began to throw up and become dizzy. The food should have no problem and I guessed most of the part was caused by M's own anxiety.

We managed to do the swim test and skin diving techniques, but we had to break before M could continue for the scuba part. We asked M to take rest lying on a sun chair of the resort in shade. While I was waiting, I had nothing to do but sitting on the poolside, in my wetsuit, and watching a pair of European taking their review course.

M wanted to quit (again) but finally agreed to continue. We needed to do neutral balancing (hovering in water), releasing and replacing weights, releasing and replacing equipment both under water and at surface. By the time everything finished, it was approaching 4pm and Eriko suggests that we have both the last 2 dives on the day that follows.

After cleaning up, we were allowed to study a bit before taking the exam. I had enough time to go through the technical reviews at the end of each chapter. Both me and M got 3 questions wrong, which is well within the passing rate of 75%.

Dinner was light again, at Coco Vida with Penne al Arrabiata (in a tomato based sauce with chili and paprika, and permesan cheese, or to be exact, something like the Kraft permesan style cheese powder) and Ceasar salad (better but still far from the genuine thing). These plus 2 coke were P410. I paid tips P10. Ice-cream for dessert as usual costed P240 (P120 each).

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Go scuba!

Sleeping from 9pm something till 6:20 am I recover well, although there are still dark circles. It was indeed the best sleep recently.

We had breakfast at 7am as planned, with bacon and scrambled eggs, 2 pieces of toasted wholemeal bread, instant coffee and OJ. M took continental only. We spent more time than expected despite that I've packed already the night before. By the time we leave our room it was more than 8:50am already. But it's only a short walk to our dive centre Sea Explorers and we ended up a couple of minutes late only.

One of the shop manager Eriko, a Japanese girl, immediately spotted us and came to greet us. Then we followed her into the office and signed a lot of paper, most of them being about releases and disclaims. Eriko didn't mentioned about the fee due, but to avoid any hassle I suggested that we settle it first, and so we did.

Then the morning was spent with watching video and reading the manual. The manual was not just a booklet. It's about 2cm thick. Although the book was written in a quite concise way, it is not easy to finish much in a morning. We watched 3 chapters of video and did the quizes of the first 2. Eriko came from time to time to check our pace and did the tests for chapters 1 and 2. There were 10 questions in each test and you must not answer wrongly in more than 2 of them; Otherwise you need to take another set of 10 questions. But if you fail again, there was not a 3rd set. You simply go back to the first set and try again. M made 3 errors in the first test and in each set - so that's how we know so well. The second attempt were 100% though.

We spent a bit too much time and so we needed to take sandwiches and coke for lunch while we was watching the chapter 3 video.

We went for practicing in the pool in the afternoon. Some techniques were easier than we imagined but some were the other way round, like keeping neutrally buoyant. M also had problem clearing the mask, probably due to difficulty in controlling the breath through the nose.

The practice was not extremely tiring. But we'd only finished after 5pm and so it's still certain exercise. After rinsing and storing the gears we went back to take shower, and then head for dinner. We went to Hayahay again and this time for Chili Con Carne Meat Pie and Pizza Favorites. Each drank a bottle of San Miguel and a Coke. The bill was P700.



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Visit Alona Beach Again

Cebu Pacific start 1 and a half in the morning. There were not a lot of people there, many of them were Korean.

Cafe de Carol was the last shop with hot food and packed with people. Fortunately we could find a starbucks. There we had hot coffee and a hazelnut chocolate chips muffin, which were not bad at all.

I slept during most of the flight time. The plane was more stable than expected.

On arrival we bought the SIM card from the vending machine. I wrongly chose a P100 prepaid card, which was not a SIM, and need to pay P150 again for the tourists' SIM. Later in Hayahay restaurant, while I was sipping the OJ of our breakfast, I found that the P100 prepaid card can be used to fill the SIM.

Taxi driver Boy Chua catched us and we paid him P250 to go to Port One for Ocean Jet. I bought return tickets for both of us, P1,640 in total. Terminal fee being sold but they told me that we do not need to buy. Baggage must be checked-in and
we were proposed to pay P100. We contested as we just read the notice in front of the counter that said fair porter fee should be P10/bag.

Ocean Jet was not as wonderful as many had said. We were in the front of the vessel and it was quite stuffy and hot there. Before arriving, a cockroach was crawling in front of me, making me a bit nervous.

We paid P400 for a van to Golden Palm. It was not a taxi but it's more comfortable. The room was not free yet and so we went to Hayahay to have american breakfast, which was P200 a set, quite expensive. It's a good thing to do to pass the time though. After that we took a walk but it was a bit hot, and soon we found ourselves back at Golden Palm. Fortunately we can have the room already around noon. I bought an 8L bottled water at Golden Palm for P80.

We slept a bit so lunch was skipped. At 6pm we had dinner at Coco Vida. We ordered Grilled Chicken Breast, 2 Grilled Pork Chop, 2 Plain Rice, Mixed Veg Salad in Balsamic Vinegar, Coke and San Miguel. It costed P580. I left P10 tips.

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Bathing with angels

Our wonderful island hopping experience in Cebu, the Philippines
楽しんでたアイランドホッピング・セブ・フィリピン



A hot afternoon in a Chinese restaurant not far from the Tagbilaran port, we were taking late lunch while waiting for the ferry back to Cebu. My cell phone rang. It was Fernando Casquejo, or Andy, one of the Cebu boatmen with wide exposure in Hong Kong discussion boards. I text him a while ago for our island hopping tour the following day.

Andy's English was better than I expected, yet not well articulate at occasions. In order to avoid misunderstanding, I spoke loudly and recited the agreed price repeatedly. Later in the day, I text him a few more times to make sure everything was fine.

15 minutes before appointment time, the hotel reception informed us that Andy had arrived. We quickly grasped our gear and hop on the car, a pick-up truck converted passenger car, that Andy prepared for us. 5 minutes later we were at the pier waiting to go on board.

Andy could not come with us as he had got a bigger group that day. We got on a smaller boat with his wife Rosalina, two of his boys, and his nephews Antique and Michael. We had no complaint, as that's all we needed.



Well, afterall we are one of those city skeptics. Soon after set-off, I took out a simple map, showing it to Rosalina and tried to find out where we were going and if there was anything that she might charge us in addition. With her limited English, Rosalina told us which were the places we could consider, where were the fishes, and the entrance fees for each place respectively. Basically, within a reasonable distance, we could freely choose our itinery. She assured that there was no surcharges. "We are honest people," she said. Indeed they are. At the end of the day, we were not charged on anything we had not agreed upon in advance.

I saw some cakes with strawberry jam wrapped in clear film, which I thought were their lunch. But when we started snorkelling we found they are food for attracting fish, and absolutely free of charge. Their lunch, as what we had seen, were merely a couple of mangoes.

Our first stop was Gilutungan sanctuary. Visitors can find a lot of marine lives here. We had decided to come although Rosalina told us on our way that the entrance fee here is expensive - 200 pesoes per person.



As soon as our boat docked the island, a couple of Filippino men came up and invited us to follow them for snorkelling. We noticed that Rosalina avoided to participate in the conversation and had soon realized that the service of these men was not included in the 200 pesoes. For some reason Rosalina could not refuse to allow their solicitation. Although they explained that they were "volunteers" and payment was optional, we decided that we did not need the service. Moreover, nothing could be or should be free.

Actually Antique had stopped the boat somewhere already good for snorkelling. What do we need? All we had to do was to take off our T-shirt and shorts and jump into the emerald color, clear water. Michael and the children also plunged in. They took our arms and led us to see the big fishes.

There were quite a large variety of fishes and colorful coral. Some fish was bigger than a family-size pizza.





17-year-old Michael has a charming smile with dimple on his cheeks. He is a natural born diver, can stay under water for a long time and dash around out of nothing. I actually saw him flipping a rock bigger than his own body, 8 feet below the surface.



Back on the boat, the "volunteers" were still there. Having failed to become our snorkelling master, the men started showing us pearls, pendants made of shark tooth, and giant mantis shrimps which he could have them cooked immediately for our breakfast. We wanted none of them.

Next we set off for Caohagan, another small island. A Japanese bought it in the 80's and set up some facilities there. It has not much fish in its waters but is a good place for bathing. Our boat stopped outside the island and there was a vast bank of white sand spanning until the beach of the island, with swimming-pool-clear water up to our thighs.



Andy's boys played with us as if we were friends, not customers. To catch our attention, they did all sorts of acrobatics they could think of - standing upside down, jumping from Antique's shoulders... It was so funny.







We also chatted with Antique, which let us know a little more about him.

Antique told us that we can go up the beach by swimming, or precisely, walking there - then the 100 peso entrance fee would not be required. But we were feeling so good that we didn't want to leave the water. Rosalina suggested that the youngmen could go down the water and get us some sea urchin roe if we like. We gently turned down this idea also. We thought they were already doing a great job and such extra work was not really necessary.




We stayed until it's time for lunch, when we headed to one of the floating restaurants at Cao-Uy of Olango Island. The restaurant was almost empty, and so were their basins. Yet upon the arrival of customers the basins are instantly filled with catches - crab, lapu lapu, fan lobsters with ugly yellow shell, and lots of sea shells which we were the first time to see a living creature in it.


During our lunch Andy brought the other group in. He came over to greet us and we chatted for a short time. He had been receiving a lot of enquiries in mobile phone text, which he had difficulty to answer, both because of the cost and his English level. We think it would be a good idea for him to learn how to use e-mail. But of course, even in such a commercially active area, computer is still a luxury to many Philippino families.



We had plan for souvenir shopping in the city, so we only asked Rosalina to take us to one more spot after lunch, the Talima Marine Sanctuary. The entrance fee was only 100 pesoes per head and there were also quite a lot of fish, though in smaller size and variety comparing with Gilutungan. Again the Casquejo boys played with us as if we were their pals. They are chidren after all. For a few times they rode on our backs like riding horses while we were doing our snorkelling. They were heavy in the water! I would have sunken if not wearing a life jacket. All the way we were laughing though, and the joy was incomparable.



Rosalina took us back to the pier and found us a motor tricycle. They took a short ride with us together and we waved goodbye to this graceful lady and her lovely kids outside the local market.



The cost for 2 person was 2,500 pesoes (USD 55) only. This price should be good for up to 6 person, with reasonable adjustment thereafter. Lunch was not included, but it was not expensive. For us, Andy provided free life jackets, and we had our own masks. Make sure you are provided with sufficient equipment if you have a bigger group. Protective shoes are not absolutely necessary for the destinations mentioned.

Andy has got an e-mail address now. Mobile text may still be the best way to contact him, until he becomes familiar with e-mail and has his own computer and Internet access. His number has been changed to +63 (0)99933 63064 (from the old number +63 (0)90959 81871). If anybody has problem to connect or to communicate, leave a message here and I would try to help.



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雪嶽、丹楓(2)

坐凌晨客機果然令生理周期十分混亂，第一天晚上沒吃晚飯，卻並不特別覺得餓，睡得還不錯。

由於有點掛心，早上起來打點好所有能做的東西，等團友起來。團友的最大嗜好就是睡覺，休息時間要充足。所以第一天在龍山站我都不敢先買下火車票，免得誤了班次反而不妙。在香港我已經查好當天早上幾個火車班次的時間，但對於坐地鐵和找火車站所需的時間並沒有很多頭緒。待團友醒來，已不早了。我迅即穿戴整齊、沏好茶、放好作早餐的包點。半推半迫，團友也匆匆梳洗和我吃過早餐，馬上Check-out。

Check-out 手續非常快，只要自己報上沒有飲用Mini-bar 的東西，完全不需要等候。

KOREANA 的級別不差，但它的光輝看來是停留在80年代的。酒店周邊的商店食肆乏善足陳，去明洞的話走路也不近。由酒店大門往南行至地鐵站外是德壽宮的石牆，路旁種植了銀杏樹，此時也已泛金黃，但不算很美。除了說鄰近地鐵一號線，這酒店可謂沒有甚麼特別。下一次來首爾一定不會再選這裏。


我們拉著旅行箱走到市政廰站，坐北行的一號線到清涼里坐火車。不過，地鐵圖裏的一號線清涼里站跟KTX 的清涼里站明顯不是重疊在一起的。有些圖的譯名更加會看到其他版本的譯名，好像甚麼「清涼里(地上)」站，真令人如丈八金剛摸不著頭腦。所以到底從地鐵出來是怎樣到火車站的，事前真是無從估量。

找到4號出口


但出口四周都看不見像火車站的東西，怎辦?

幸好，在出口四處探索了5分鐘，終於給我在工地的圍板上找到路牌 - 而且是有英語和日語的路牌。


這一座就是清涼里火車站


火車站的入口是三層樓高的樓梯，我們提著旅行箱走完氣也喘不過來。只是，距離下一班開出的火車只有二十分鐘不到的時間，我們票也還沒買到手呢。這一天是週末，清涼里的火車站跟前一天龍山火車站的光景真是天壤之別，大堂裏擠了一整個首爾要逃往郊外的人，有一堆一堆的青少年，有老師領著的小學生，有部隊。眼看再不買就來不及，我先讓團友守著行李，然後往一個自動售票機走去。可惜，搞了幾分鐘沒辦法搞得懂。於是，我又走向大堂另一端的、看來較新型的售票機。這款機的英語菜單比較易明白，但是選了兩次我需要的車票，售票機都顥示沒有我所要的票。時間一分一秒的過去，我唯一的希望只剩下乖乖地在售票處前面排隊，然後祈禱排在我前面的二十多個人馬上消失。

排隊的人當然不會自動消失，但售票員的效率很高，令他們真的很快不見了。我撲到窗口前說「Gapyeong, two」，售票的先生用韓語詢問了一些東西，原來他想解釋已經沒有座位，現在發售的是企位。幸好我之前早有所聞會有企位出現，否則要馬上搞清楚不會容易。

買到票，只剩幾分鐘，一起飛奔到月台!

「無窮花號」列車在等候著我們


雖然是企位，但也有指定的車廂。在車門前的一位男車務員有禮地指示我們車廂的方向。不過登車後發覺人們還是在各車廂間亂竄，座位是沒有的了，只想找一個好一點的位置站一下吧。車廂裏座位間的通道上其實都站了不少的人；車廂外十多呎的空間也分別給一對在看手提電視的情侶、兩個女人、一個阿朱媽、一個阿積司盤踞著。而因為我們帶著兩個大大的旅行箱，只能留在車廂外洗手間的前面，當其「所長」。

行車時間要大約1小時15分，怕累的我不久便提議把旅行箱當櫈子坐。團友坐下便拿小說出來啃，而我則只是無聊地看四周的人和窗外的風景打發時間。

我留意到那對小情侶的相處，男方對女方十分照顧，一路上又餵食物，又幫她穿衣服，又負責收拾所有雜物，女的由頭到尾根本不用動一根指頭 - 奇怪了，不是說韓國很大男人嗎? 現實上卻更近乎「我的野蠻女友」。

1小時多的車程很容易便過去，火車抵達我們的目的地加平。這個地方真的有點「鄉下」，建築物都不高，發展的程度可能比東莞的常平還來不及。


拍一張到此一遊吧...


下火車後的第一件事，便是要找個地方存放好行李。不過在加平火車站的可見範圍內都看不見任何儲物櫃或存放行李處。這一次也是先讓團友在候車室坐坐看管行李，而我則在火車站裏裏外外作一次地氈式搜索。加平火車站只是一個很小的建築物，要走一圈一分鐘都不用，所以很快我便發覺這是徒勞。這裏根本沒有儲物的設施。

回程時我們要坐長途巴士離開，所以我便想到巴士總站那裏找一下。火車站門前右方有一個旅客詢問處，我上前問了路。詢問處只是一間賣報紙的鐵皮屋般大小的小亭，裏面有一個只懂韓語和極少量英語單字的阿朱媽。她看來也盡量地幫忙，但奈何言語不通，而她的小亭裏也不見得存放了很多外國人有用的資料，所以在明白了巴士站的方向和距離我便不再多問了。

巴士站離火車站只是走路2分鐘左右。巴士站大堂上掛了寫著巴士往來班次的佈告板，但儲物櫃還是欠奉。

回頭我在詢問處的阿朱媽裏又拿了下一站春川的地圖，幸好除了韓語還有日語的，還可以看一下。向團友說明了情況後，我們都想，既來之則安之，帶著行李起程吧。我們是去南怡島的，網上有人說坐船的碼頭有儲物櫃，或者是真的吧...

在我東奔西走的時候，坐火車來的大部份人已坐的士離去。不久前街上還有很多湧來火車站撈遊客的的士，但現在都不見了。我們在的士站排在另一對本地遊客的後面，等了10分鐘左右，才有另一輛的士。車尾廂只放得下一個行李，團友和另一個行李坐後座，我坐前面。

的士司機也懂一點英語單字，他跟我說今天很多人去南怡島，路上有很多大型旅遊車。很快，路面的情況由繁忙變成行車緩慢，再由行車緩慢變得塞起來。咪錶迅速到跳到4千多圜。雖然韓國的的士費用不太高，但因事前沒有搞清楚這程車有多遠，這樣塞下去真的令人很不安。司機看來有點無奈，但也不慍不火，並沒有埋怨我們的意思。坐了20分鐘左右，我問依他想還有多久才到呢? 他答我說可能要另外30分鐘。哇，這張賬單可不簡單了。

走了一段路，不知司機是不是抄了另一條路線，比較沒那麼塞，放飛了一會兒。後來終於從遠處看到河流和碼頭。但眼看不久就要到了，車輛又積聚起來。這一次更塞得不得了，簡直就是動也不動。



有些司機開始下車伸展手腳，而我們前面的旅遊巴士則連乘客也棄車而逃。我們的司機見狀也提議我們下車走路，說應在10分鐘內可到。我們對他的說話也沒多懷疑，否則再呆下去也不知等到何年何月。埋單接近一百元港幣。

兩個傻瓜拉著旅行箱在下坡道上那些旅遊巴士和房車間穿穿插插，果然在幾分鐘便來到南怡島碼頭。而且，我們馬上證實了傳聞: 南怡島碼頭真是有儲物櫃的!



大儲物櫃一個需3個W500 硬幣，前一天收過的硬幣不知夠不夠呢？先把行李放進去試試再說...

這一下問題可大了。外表看來很大的儲物櫃，高度很高，寬度也廣，但內部並不很深，四四方方的；團友的旅行箱還放得下，但我的放進去還有幾吋凸出來，關不了門。

四處再找，沒有其他儲物設施。賣票窗口拐個彎另有一個「International Travel Information」窗口，但沒有人；好歹找了一個女服務員來，跟她說英語，不懂(大抵是從One 數到 Ten 都不行的程度)，「您說普通話嗎?」，不懂，「日本語は?」，不懂... 天哪，這個窗口怎麼個International法!拼命指著行李用英語解釋，最後只得到一個兩臂交叉的手勢。

急死了，我竟想把硬把行李塞進儲物櫃，當然也是不可行。

When all the clouds darken up the skyway
There's a rainbow highway
To be found
Leading from your window pane
To a place behind the sun
Just a step beyond the rain

我嘗試了一個最渺茫的希望 - 把行李存放在店家裏。



可能沒有甚麼生意，男主人穿著拖鞋在店門前的馬路上踱步。我很奇怪他竟能聽得懂我的要求(雖然他完全不懂得說英語)；而當他回答費用是「衣倉」一件(1,000圜)，我更加是傻了眼。韓國的消費沒有比香港便宜，1,000圜根本是大贈送。這樣的環境下，那怕他要5,000圜、10,000圜一件，我也只能乖乖付鈔的。

這對親切又有禮，又不向遊客開刀的店家，我對他們衷心的感謝。

行李的問題解決了，我們便買船票。船票要買不難，幾乎不用排隊；但等候登船的人卻比潮水還要洶湧。我們手中拿著船票，一面穿過碼頭外的停車場沿著人龍後面走，但卻發覺人龍增長的速度比我們的腳步還要快。最後，我們差不多奔跑著才把龍尾趕上。

人龍長得看不到前面是甚麼


搞了半天，還未吃午飯。附近有些烤肉店和烤雞店，但這個時候不可能坐下來好好吃了，只在小食檔買了美式熱
狗和汽水來裹腹。


可能邊行邊吃比較放鬆下來，覺得人龍推進得很快，剛吃完便看到渡口了。南怡島自稱為「南怡島共和國」，所以收船票的地方寫著「IMMIGRATION」。


進入渡口人龍由單行變成多行，人們混雜在一起；雖然不算太混亂，但途中我們還是領教到韓國阿朱媽的厲害，肚皮、腰間吃了幾個手肘。幸好，沒多久終於來到前排了。負責指揮的人很公正，有些人乘亂想打尖，都被他趕回去。


來了一艘有點像鯨魚的船


馬上可以上船啦...


船程不過10分鐘。我們很笨的走進了鯨魚肚裏；天氣那麼好，應該到鯨魚背上吹吹風看看兩岸的秋色。

剛下船便看到很多紅紅黃黃的樹木


有韓國色彩的小屋


不知是甚麼柱


終於看到全紅的楓葉


還有幾株黃中帶青的銀杏


草坪後面有很多紅葉，但已經擠了很多人在拍照


楓樹有高的、矮的，也有黃的、橙的


特寫


紅黃橘綠層層相疊，畫面很豐富


沒有紅葉的地方也會有些詩意的景致


因為不太喜歡韓劇，所以冬日戀曲只看過幾集。這個雪人應該在裏面出現過吧?


導演在此


吻一個...


可以在這裏野餐的話準不錯


說到野餐，午飯時間已過，這天的晚餐又沒有很大把握，也要找點吃的了。看地圖往前找餐廳所在的位置，途中找到一些有趣的擺設:

比真品更大的鋼琴


一層樓高的「大」提琴


胡亂拍了幾張照片後，我們走到一家食堂式的餐廳外面。木房子裏面擺的木桌木椅有點鄉郊的簡單隨意，但座位都差不多被佔滿了，我們只好在先在戶外的露天桌椅坐下來，然後我進室內看餐廳是自助的還是怎樣。一進去，發覺大家只是在吃差不多的東西，不是拌飯便是麵條；但牆上的韓字菜單馬上便把我給嚇倒了，心想還是退回自己的桌子上讀一下背包裏那本Lonely Plant Korean Phrase Book 裏Food 那一篇吧。可惜，坐了半天，侍應只是匆匆忙忙地跑來跑去，不要說我們這些不懂韓語的外國人了，連坐在一旁的本土人也沒理睬。剛巧室內有一桌客人剛走，我想可能外面會不會是沒有服務的呢? 那便進去坐下。果然馬上便有個廿來歲的姑娘來招呼。不過，她跟我們說的不是問要吃甚麼，而是解釋客人太多了，超出了她們的負荷，已經沒法再接受點菜了。我想不會是嫌我們外國人麻煩吧? 但她的樣子又不像。算了，反正應該有其他吃東西的地方，就不呆下去了。

然後是一家很大的烤肉店。也很擠但要找一兩個座位還可以，但油煙太勁了，團友對這些大塊大塊肉又不太有興趣，又便離開了。

合該如此，我們到了一家賣三明治的小吃店。店前放了個展示著幾種三明治的易拉架，我們入去向店主要了其中兩種，並要兩瓶可樂。店主是個中年人，不知是裝的還是真的，不懂英語，只是兩眼上翻算了一下給我用計算機看了價錢，讓我先付錢。在等的時候團友說價錢好像不對，不知店主是否以為只是一份三明治。我們便再問他，他又說其中一種三明治沒有了。我便說我要兩份，改為一樣的吧。他又兩眼上翻算了一下，又問我多要7千多圜。我這才想到這怎麼可能，我在中環IFC 吃一份還沒這個貴，便抗議了。他指指我們的汽水。我們反駁說那是已付錢的! 前後一分鐘也不到，其間又沒有其他客人，分明就是店主在坑遊客，亂說價錢!

最後仔細算一下，我們應該被他大概騙了港幣廿多塊；雖然是很少錢，但心裡很不暢快!

奇怪的綠色三明治(其實味道是OK 的，但因店主的誠信，100個不推薦!!)


放下被騙的不快，繼續上路。首先看到的是仿古的部份。

戶外放滿醬醰子的木屋


古意盎然的遊戲 - 投壼


小朋友玩這個大鍋飯很投入


這個島紅起來就是為了一齣「冬日戀曲」。自然便有個給粉絲膜拜的神壇「戀歌之家」


裡面只有一些劇照，海報，看頭不大。


海報上的水杉路就在南怡島上。


沒有鏡頭美化的實物卻似乎不怎麼樣...


從南怡島碼頭沿島中央的大路往南一直走，會踫到一個十字岔口，西面是著名的水杉路，東面是山茱萸路，直走便是銀杏路。雖然之前一直看到的銀杏樹都屬半青不黃的，這條銀杏路上的銀杏樹卻彷彿相互間有種感應，不約而同迸發著金黃的色彩，爭做南怡島上的主角。


主角當然是它們了... 整條銀杏路都擠滿人，要拍一張像樣的照片也不容易。


連天空都染金


再來幾張


回頭再看水杉路；人太多，只能把視線向上移，才有一點點像韓劇裏的風景。


南怡島上也有它自己經營的旅館，不過在郊外晚上住下來也無事可做。看其中一間旅舍，頗像小時候去的夏令營。


這樣匆匆的把半個南怡島看過，想想差不多是時候回程了，因為遊人眾多，還是趁早動身。中央大道走過了，我們選擇在西面較寧靜的小徑漫步回碼頭。路上間中也有一些情侶。


江邊也有紅葉，雖不算很繁茂，卻多添了一種淡雅之美。


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