Going to HK:)

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Hehe, this is starting to become a little trip report me thinks Sorry no photo's yet (allthough I hardly fotographed cars..)

Anyways, before heading out to macau we spend a day shopping around somewhere on the other side of HK. In some little store where they had lots of little manga toy's I found some tiny initial D toy cars, I believe they have been on sale on this site before.. Since they only cost 4 euro's I took a nice trueno along

So yesterday we headed out to Macau, after checking into the hotel we tried to find where we could go shopping, first when the wrong way and ended up in some district that was way booooring, allthough there were some car shops around but not much to see. Then head the other way and found out the shops around the casino are relatively expensive and booring, just camera and phone shops, designer clothes shops, etc.

Also what really struck us is that macau currently is a bit of a mess, they are building new stuff everywhere, they are totally modernising it but it does get in the way of thigns.

Walking even further we finaly got to what I guess was the center of macau with all the normal shops and sightseeing things and so. Getting lost in the little streets of macau we suddenly hit this small store that sold loads of little toy things, suddenly my eyes caught a trueno Initial D toy!! Yeah nice I thought, bit bigger, something like 1/32 or so scale, remote controlled (simple forward/reverse/left/right). Coolest, only 5 euro's so I bought it. Later inspecting it in the hotel I found out it was some cheap ass chinese ripoff, I bought myself an ad86 turano car driven by kazumi from the speed suns, well you get the idea, just twisting the words enough not to get into trouble with brand licensing Still its cute as hell and for the 5 bucks a fun buy.

Walking further down that street we ran into an rather wicked department store. First of all, instead of going up, it went down, 4 stories underground Second, it was all japanese. Not much manga stuff but they sold anything japanese, from japanese food, to toys, to tupperware, to car accessories, to whatnot. Offcourse the most fun I had was when I ran into a rack full of canned coffee! The stuff really does exist!!
Owh and almost everything in that store costs just 1 euro, which we didn't find out until we finaly got to the cashier. I really have to go there some day again

Last but not least totally exhausted on our way to the hotel we got into this department store that looked like it was ready to collapse. Escalators didn't work, looked really shitty but for some reason we went in, Lily saw some cute clothes there.. On the top floor I found heaven... well for me anyways, a little store tucked a way fully STACKED with old model kit boxes (and I mean stacked litterly, they didn't have shelves just hundreds of boxes stackd ontop of eachother). They just about had the whole gundam and macross series model kits. Again a place I someday need to return to, I was way to tired and only ended up buying a nice tiny valkarie model.

Today we went to check out Taipa and Coloane or whatever its spelled like. They are the two city's or districts or whatever on the island part of macau (macau itself is a penincula of china). This was mostly tourist sightseeing, little shops of interest to manga or car freaks alike. We ended up in the 'mountains' of coloane. There are some great roads out there! Only problem is, allthough people driving in macau have a total lack of understanding of traffic laws (there doesn't seem to be anything like right of way) they do all drive VERY VERY VERY VERY slowly in their high performance cars. Crazy people!
Also we visited on the wrong day, we found this cool dammed off reserviour where you could rent little pedal boats, play with remote controlled boats, etc, but it was all closed today

All in all, Macau is fun to visit for a day or two as a tourist. Its real appeal is in all the casino's but I am no gambling man. I hope to return there some day when they've somewhat finished building it a little more and when the temparature is alot lower