Macau, the rest of the day

We chill out with a great lunch overlooking Senado Square. I have something called African Chicken, a Portuguese specialty. Victor has ribs. Both are good, the atmosphere relaxing and we are able to get our feet back on the ground. Looking around is so interesting with old European architecture mixed with Chinese, old and new. I hope our photos show this. Markets are full of the same stuff we saw in HK. We taxi back to the hotel and relax before dinner.

This time Victor has chosen a Lebanese restaurant down near the water. The desk writes the directions down and the taxi driver drops us off two blocks away. I think is a great improvement and wonder how they don't know where these places are. It isn't a big island. It might be that there aren't exact addresses, but more of an area. We were able to walk around and find the right restaurant. Either we were too late and had missed the dinner crowd or too early, but the place was empty. We had a nice dinner though selecting a mix of items and enjoying the many different flavors.

When finished we walked the casino district, quite different from the USA where the slot machines are practically out the doors urging you to come in with their constant clinking of coins, bells and whistles. In every case we had to really look for the casino part of the hotel and in several cases couldn't find it at all. There is very little English spoken in Macau. They get far more Asian visitors than Europeans and Americans.

We found a slot machine, dropped in our $5.00 HK coin and played for 15 minutes, as this was worth about 75 cents USD, we thought this a fairly good machine and wanted to play more. Alas, we only had Macau money and the casinos only take HK money. Odd...we are in Macau....

We are a little frustrated with our Macau experience so far, but this is Okay as Victor wakes up at 4am and reads the book again and by the time I get up he has a full exciting day planned for us.