Breakfast at 09:00 after a good night’s sleep. The hotel is used for training, and it’s really a 5 star hotel but the prices are low because of this, plus it’s a bit out of the main area. All the staff are over-courteous, saying “good morning” whenever you pass, rushing to open the doors and even pressing the lift button for you. It’s good though.
Decided to go to Macau for the day, we have a friend with us who has come over for the same trade show as Song and he hasn’t been for 15 years. The ferry only took an hour. The weather was warm, muggy and overcast. We would have a good view from the hotel if we could see anything.
Macau is basically a casino town – gambling in China and Hong Kong is illegal (except for horses) so they all go to Macau. It is also an old Portugese colony, and it was interesting to see the similarities with Portugal, in particular the cobblestone paths were the same.
It was also very busy, hordes of people around. We visited a couple of the sights, but there isn’t a lot, plus we’d been there in 2007 and seen them. Had lunch, nothing special.
We also had a look in a casino – if you’ve been in Crown you’ve probably seen the same thing.
As we were taking pictures outside, a well-dressed couple approached Song and started to talk to her – I thought they wanted her to take their picture or something, but they said they’d lost all their money at the Casino and would she lend them some so they could eat.
Yeah, right.
Got the bus to the ferry and got back to the hotel around 22:00, didn’t bother with dinner.
Shopping tomorrow, although probably won’t buy anything, there’s nothing we need.