Macau Weekend

We went to Macau for the weekend - the Vegas of Aisia, Casinoville and architectural hallucinogen - its telecom tower competing with ultra-mod gambling cities, an artificial Venice, volcanoes, art deco originals and a 50 story gold shiny building that looks like the top half of a pineapple with its spikey leaves. Rampant chaos, explosive growth, the hint of an omnipresent underworld, all running at top speed in 35 degrees of South East Asian ultrahumidity. We navigated the first two of the three islands and went to the far side of the third, Coloane, where you can hide from the rest in relative seclusion and your kids can run on a beach and splash in a pool. But before I get into it I wanted to say that I was delighted to get this photo of you taken by Big George. I chopped out the rest of the pic, and built a groovy matching background - matching that is the quicksilver stripes on the Quicksilver top. Its so nice to get a pic of you, puts me in touch, and reminds me how you're rocketing - you look beautiful, fabulous, so I thought I'd post it here, where it pretty much belongs.



We did not much more than nothing, spent two days in the pool and on the beach to Fernando's, the best Portugese food in Asia, spicy, tasty, simple and volumous. Coloane has a black sand beach, (from the artificial volcano perhaps?), which I've only seen before in Indonesia, and the sea is an amazingly muddy brown - VERY different from the white-blue/green of SA. The hotel was lush, and the pool