I am really tired right now so forgive anything that doesn't make sense. I dont remember if i mentioned this before but ive been playing at the Grand Lisboa Casino. It looks fucking amazing from the outside, a picture wouldn't do it justice and i dont think a vid from my shitty phone would help either. Anyway... I hit the casino a bit late today. I slept through most of the afternoon and hit the casino around 9. I sat down on the table and figure I have only 2 quality players with me here, all the rest are donkeys. I [View Full Entry]

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Instead of posting/emailing/messaging everyone that is interested in my poker adventures here in macau, ive decided to do a blog. Thanks for the idea alisha. Its going to start from today since my first day here consisted of sleeping, watching tv and adjusting to the heat by eating lots of icecream. Macau is the asian version of las vegas. There is a casino on every corner but there are ONLY 2 casinos that have poker. Luckily one of them is a $4 cab ride from aaron and zels place. After my day recovery from jet lag and getting use to the [View Full Entry]

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The End of Asia So, as planned I'm continuing in my catch up quest to get this up to date with my travels. Since the last blog I've been traveling round the North Island of New Zealand which has been amazing so far. Wont go into too many deatails although I feel I should let you all know I managed a Sky Dive Yesterday over Lake Taupo which was amazing. Dropped out of a little plane from 15,000ft and over a minute of freefall before the parachute opens, awesome! Anyway, for now I'm just gonna try and cover my few days [View Full Entry]

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Zondag hebben we de ferry genomen vanuit Shenzhen naar Macao. Macao was een portugese kolonie in China, vergelijkbaar met Hong Kong van de Engelsen. Macao staat nu vooral bekend om zijn vele casino's en draait nu zelfs een grotere omzet dan Las Vegas. Wij hebben eerst de oude portugese nederzetting bezocht, wat echt leek alsof wij in Portugal waren; gekleurde huisjes, stenen straatjes en blauwe tegeltjes. Hoewel alles nog steeds in het Portugees staat geschreven, blijkt toch niemand Portugees te spreken. In het centrum hebben wij de ruines van de kathedraal van Sao Paolo bezocht waar enkel de [View Full Entry]

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So I got to Macau for a day...although it is a place that you could easily spend two or three, and that isn't including the time you might spend in the casinos! It is definitely the Las Vegas of the east. Big casinos all over the place. Names like the Sands, the Vienetian are but a few. Outside horse racing in Hong Kong, it is the only place to legally gamble in China and therfore as you can imagine this place gets pretty busy. Of course I couldn't come here without having a gamble so in true backpacker fashion I gamled [View Full Entry]

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So I am finally updating my travel blog!! ok so strating from the very beginning, we arrived in Hong Kong airport at around 5pm on wednesday 9th July and then we went straight onto the ferry to macau rather than going through customs which was rather nice!after a very rocky 45mins on the boat we arrived in the Las Vagas of China!!and man was it bright!!we then got our luggage donned our backpacks for the first time and set out to find our hostel (it was now about 9pm n very dark!!) so we thought for ease we would jus grab [View Full Entry]

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As we begin the tale of how we ended up here at this particular moment, let us first set the scene for ‘here’ and ‘the moment’. Currently Andrew and Tori are sitting in their hotel room ‘The Salisbury - YMCA of Hong Kong’ in Tsim Sha Tsui (part of Kowloon in Hong Kong) consuming the following products: • Pringles (light) in Original Flavour • Malteasers in Cappuccino flavour • Kit Kat in Black Flavour and • Maxim’s Supreme Butter Loaf which is a fairly standard bun, except for the intriguing dialogue printed on its pa [View Full Entry]

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A short ferry ride from Hong Kong is the town of Macau. Along with Hong Kong, Macau is the other Special Administrative Region within China and with that status comes all the other goodies. You must go through customs to enter Macau, it has its own currency, its own international country dialing code, and its own government. Macau was a Portuguese colony for 400 years before being handed back to China in 1999. It was used as a base for Jesuit missionaries and it was here that the first bible was translated into a Chinese language. Macau consists of a large [View Full Entry]

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Finally, after careful...then careless planning...i arrived in Macau. So before I start with this travel blog, I'd better explain the first sentence first... Initially the Macau trip was supposed to be done with my brother Miko, as a late birthday present for him (the Disneyland, Hongkong, which is a side trip) and with my father as a father's day present. So I carefully planned the trip, booked the plane ticket in advance and booked a hotel room for the first day in advance. Unfortunately , my father's passp[ort was not released on time so he has to beg off the trip. [View Full Entry]

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Macau [View Full Entry]

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