On Friday, we went to Macau. We had gone back and forth on whether to go, but in the end decided that we wanted to complete our trifecta of Not China while we were in the area. Macau isโฆvery odd. It was a Portugese colony starting in the 1500s, and now itโs the gambling capital…
We picked a difficult time to visit Hong Kong. We had booked this trip several months ago, before protests picked up in June, and as the trip grew closer we watched the news carefully and with increasing alarm, especially when the western news stopped covering the protests and it became increasingly difficult to find accurate…