Home Travel Diving Running Kids Mail us		Sunday 16th November 2003 Aberdeen is a 10 minute bus ride from Wan Chai, through the tunnel on the South of the island. Amid drab grey tower blocks is a lively fishing harbour. Larger boats unload their catches while small sampans rush to and fro carrying merchandise and tourists alike. There was an uproar this week when the Health Authority closed down a number of these stalls for pumping sewage rich sea water into the tanks for holding fish. Cholera and high doses of E Coli were detected but no one has died so far! Old women tout for business on the promenade offering trips round the harbour in a sampan for HK$60. There is not a great deal to see in the harbour apart from rusty fishing ships as most of the house boats have gone. However it is lively enough. Instead I catch a free ferry to a floating restaurant. It is hard to believe that the Jumbo restaurant is floating - it is so massive. Despite pretty average, and expensive food there is a constant stream of ferries and taxis coming and going the the dining rooms are packed with locals outnumbering the tourists. Inside gilded dragons and elaborate tapestries adorn the grand staircase. At lunchtime you can eat from the menu or, as I did, grab bamboo baskets of dim sum from the ladies with trolleys as they pass. After a filling lunch I am back on dry land and heading back for Wan Chai to watch England beat France in the rugby.