Honestly I do not even see the point of Hong Kong, I have never witnessed such a lousy bunch of slow moving, grumpy and unfriendly people in my entire trip so far. So it was with joy I hopped on the ferry to Macau while riding out my visa waiting time.
Macau , a former Portuguese colony now under China is more a case of Churches instead Tepmles, and of course the ever present casino`s. Still after an afternoon rambling around the narrow cobbled lanes I could have being in Europe. My afternoon caffine hit was complemented by the one of the world famous Portuguese Egg Tarts form `Lord Stows Bakery` which I didn`t realise was piping hot and quickly lost the roof of my mouth !
Evening brought the lights out and the Casinos were in their element with water and light shows, however I think there were more tourists sight seeing as opposed to spending with all of the hotels looking quite empty.
So when do you know you have reached the holy grail of shoe stringing ? I am diffintely not far off from gaining life long staus for sure. I have even being tempted to ask for the leftover butter from a sandwhich `to take away please` on a few occassions. And quite literally last week while skiing instead of hiring a pair of goggles I sacfriced a shoelace and tied it around my sunnys to do the trick. I have given up buying tissues, Mc Donalds is now my main supplier,(same for sugar, ketchup and I have even sussed out the whole free coffee refill thing!) the days paper is courtesy of the local library (in cities anyway), when anything free is being handed out you just queue a few times, lunch on occasion has being courtesy of some food hall samples of a department store and when my bargaining skills fail me for that single dodgy looking piece of fruit, I simply move on to the next stall and try harder. So if all that doesn`t qualify me I don`t know what does.
Well finally I`m back off to China to rejoin the pot noodle express and to start the final leg of my trip,
