Before we can actually commence the tour, we have to get to our apartment. First we need to walk through the gardens, past one of the ponds and a waterfall.
Now we are approaching our tower. Careful when you look up that you don't strain your neck. It is a long way up!
There is always someone to greet us with a smile, even if they do not speak English. It is amazing what you can get across with a bit of sign language, or failing that just ask one of the people entering the tower to translate for you.
Now we will walk into the Foyer where it is always lovely and cool to wait for one of the 4 lifts. The view out the window at the end makes the wait easy. It looks straight out into the East Lamma Channel. Sorry the picture is so dark!
Now up to the 34th floor where you will find our door. We are apartment B. There are 8 apartments on each floor, so as you get off the lift you need to turn to your right.
Now ring the door bell and I will let you in! 
Welcome, welcome, welcome to our humble abode. It is only small so the tour will not take too long. This is what you will see when you first walk in. Please take off your shoes and put them in the little cupboard that you can see. It is common in Asia to remove your shoes whilst in the house.
This is what I call the living area of the house. Just a little area to sit down and watch TV or just look out the window at the harbour below. Richard is very proud of his new 42" flat screen TV so he is obviously going to spend more time looking at that than the view!
Next stop is the dining area, which is really just part of the living room. There are only 4 chairs in the apartment, but I know that more will fit around this round table, so I will have to buy more so that at least 6 people can sit down to dinner.
Come into my little kitchen, but if you think this is small you should have seen some of the kitchens we looked at. At least Richard and I can both be in the kitchen at the same time and there is plenty of cupboards which I desperately need to store all my Jalpanina pottery dinner sets!! And yes that is the washing machine in the kitchen. There is no room for it anywhere else, and this is where most people have theirs.
Now we are looking down the hall to the other end. Not that long is it!!
On the right hand side you will find a little room that could be used as a storage room, or a maids room but for us it is the office. It is very small and at the moment very untidy as things have just been thrown in and there still needs to be a considerable amount of sorting done. But it does have 3 bookcases which we really need and have filled completely.
Next let's walk down to the very end of the hall to our bedroom. You should have noticed by now that the theme is.... small, but it is very comfortable. The next two photos are taken in our bedroom. Again we have amazing views out the window which you have seen in one of my earlier blogs. The bedroom does have 2 large built in closets which you cannot see in the photos. I obviously have the largest one!!
And of course it would not be a master bedroom with out an ensuite to go with it. Behind the door is the bath. It is great to have a bath again, in fact we have two as the other bathroom (which looks exactly like this one) has one as well. So if you are coming to visit, you do not even have to share our bathroom!! 
And lastly lets have a look at the two spare rooms. Now these rooms really are very small, just enough room for a single bed (and not very long at that... my feet just touch the wall if I stretch), a built in desk and built in cupboards.
So there you have it, not a lot but for us it is now home.There is of course room for visitors as the sofa folds out into a double bed and there are two spare single beds. I hope you enjoyed the quick tour. 
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