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Macau is often referred to as Las Vegas of Asia. According to some insiders, Macau is even bigger and better than Vegas. People will have you know that Macau has big beautiful casino’s and a very interesting history, being the first European settlement in Asia. On top op everything Formula 3 (car racing) is very [...]

With great sadness we left Tokyo behind us, after all a great source for blog posts. Our next flight was to Hong Kong provided by Cathay Pacific. If you have the opportunity to fly with Cathay take it, you won’t be disappointed, at least we weren’t. We arrived in the late afternoon, grabbed a taxi [...]

That morning we started with a nice, hot, venti Mochachino at our local Starbucks (cause, you know: A Starbucks a day, keeps the Chinglish away). After checking our email and confirming some flight information, we took a taxi to the Summer Palace. Although we arrived there in the afternoon, we still managed to see and [...]

The Great Wall is something we both really wanted to see, so November 7th we boarded a tour bus set to go to the Badaling section of the Great Wall. Our tour guide, Tina, provided us with some background information on China and Beijing, while the (according to Tina ‘Master’) bus driver, drove us to [...]

Thursday November 6th we arrived, after a 3 hour delay, in the beautiful city of Beijing. The flight itself was pretty good, Finnair totally exceeded our expectations.
Beijing is a big, no: huge, no: gigantic city, so it is no wonder that it took us an hour to reach the hotel by taxi.

October 31st. Has a magical ring to it, hasn’t it? Our thoughts exactly, so we picked this day to be the first day of our, somewhat lengthy, holiday. So what are you guys going to see and do anyway, one might ask and, if so, one would be asking a very good and important question. We’re [...]