When I reached Senate Square I remembered Madrid, where I spent a summer. It dawned on me that Macau and Madrid look alike in some ways.
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Showing posts with label Macau. Show all posts
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Macau - Old Town
Senado Square
When I reached Senate Square I remembered Madrid, where I spent a summer. It dawned on me that Macau and Madrid look alike in some ways.
When I reached Senate Square I remembered Madrid, where I spent a summer. It dawned on me that Macau and Madrid look alike in some ways.
Macau - the Old Fort
Starting at the Top
After my poker let down (or shall we say relief?) I switched into explorer mode and did what any good explorer does - sought the high ground. I headed for the hills and found Macau's version to be steep. I felt like a billy goat on this street, it was like someone leaned a ladder against a cliff and I was somewhere on the middle rungs. How anyone considered sticking buildings into the ground at this angle is beyond me. As I stood in the middle of the road taking this shot I was unusually aware of my achilles, which which were stretched to the point of snapping. Half way to the greenery in the distance, I was completely out of breath but pretended not to be.
After my poker let down (or shall we say relief?) I switched into explorer mode and did what any good explorer does - sought the high ground. I headed for the hills and found Macau's version to be steep. I felt like a billy goat on this street, it was like someone leaned a ladder against a cliff and I was somewhere on the middle rungs. How anyone considered sticking buildings into the ground at this angle is beyond me. As I stood in the middle of the road taking this shot I was unusually aware of my achilles, which which were stretched to the point of snapping. Half way to the greenery in the distance, I was completely out of breath but pretended not to be.
Macau - Ferry
Poker Fantasy
On a Saturday afternoon in Hong Kong, Dodo was at a colleague's wedding in the New Territories (aka "boonies") while I was channel-flipping back at the hotel. It wasn't until early afternoon that I shook off my procrastination and took the subway to the ferry terminal. The first ten minutes of the hour ride to Macau were rough but it smoothed out once we picked up speed. I had a knot of Hong Kong dollars in my pocket, exactly $4,000, which I'd recently won in a Chinese New Year poker game. I was going to turn the four into ten or twenty, I told myself, then sip champagne on the helicopter ride back.
On a Saturday afternoon in Hong Kong, Dodo was at a colleague's wedding in the New Territories (aka "boonies") while I was channel-flipping back at the hotel. It wasn't until early afternoon that I shook off my procrastination and took the subway to the ferry terminal. The first ten minutes of the hour ride to Macau were rough but it smoothed out once we picked up speed. I had a knot of Hong Kong dollars in my pocket, exactly $4,000, which I'd recently won in a Chinese New Year poker game. I was going to turn the four into ten or twenty, I told myself, then sip champagne on the helicopter ride back.
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