Travel Bits: October 2026
New City Unlocked....... I just returned from a short trip to Hong Kong and Macau. While I have been a rather regular visitor to Hong Kong, this was actually my first ever trip to Macau. For context, I was there to attend a concert by one of my favourite Mandarin-pop artist, Rene Liu Ruo Ying. Because I was taking the cross-border bus from Hong Kong to Macau and back to Hong Kong; and the concert will end close to 10pm, I decided to stay overnight at a hotel so that I did not have to rush for the last bus back to Hong Kong. Thus, my so-called 2 day/1 night trip to Macau. Before attending the concert, I had the chance to walk around the Macau Peninsula where the hotel I booked was located. I visited and took that obligatory tourist photo of the Ruin of St Paul's, lunched at a Portuguese-style eatery, sight-see around the Freguesia de Santo António and Freguesia da Sé areas and shopped. And the next day before I returned to Hong Kong, I had lunch at a local ea...