Live from the world

 

for those of you not in the know (because im too lazy a friend to tell you) I am fresh at the start of a 22 day world tour for work. We will be visiting customers and dealers all around the world during this period with stops in 3 major ports.

 

A brief itinerary:

This week: Macau China. (with stops in hong kong)

week of the 19th: Dubai UAE (with stops in abu dhabi)

week of feb 2nd: Faro Portugal (in the algarve)

 

Unfortunately there isnt much scenery in macau (imagine las vegas with SO MUCH SMOG that you can’t see a street sign from across the street). I have a few nice indoor shots but nothing worth sharing really. I did get violently ill in the middle of the night last night, so i got that going for me.

 

I thought i’d show a couple pictures of work this time, and save the beauty shots for dubai (you know where there’s actually nice stuff to look at)

here are a couple work shots:

a room full of asians:

All of our gear:

A moment of peace for tiny (thats not his nickname, he’s just very very short):

no rest for the wicked:

 

and lastly whenever we travel between macau (an island) and Hong Kong we have to take a ferry. Its this crazy high speed hydrofoil (there was a special on these things on discovery channel…). You can pay an extra 100 MOPs (about 15 bucks) for “superclass” which nets you a bigger seat, less coughing asians (its a frigging national pastime here) and a delightful meal. breakfast was a hot with dried ketchup on a wierd flat bun, bubble tea gelatin and some sort of cream cheese type stuff with green and brown dots (mmmm green and brown dots). Strangely enough the coffee was excellent.

 

please to enjoy a picture of the delightful meal:

 

That’s all from macau, we head out through hong kong to dubai tomorrow. we get a precious few hours of free time in the morning and then a 9 hour flight direct to dubai.

 

PS here are some maps to find macau and dubai:

macau:

dubai: