Travel 2003 – Macau, Day 8

Saturday, 15th November 2003 – Macau, Day 8 Saturday is motorbike day – and we’ve all agreed we’re not going out there while they are on the loose, so we arranged to have a late start, not bother with breakfast and then do lunch at the Clube Militar de Macau, which is a very splendid,…

Travel 2003 – Macau, Day 7

Friday, 14th November 2003 – Macau, Day 7 Once again we went out track side, at least in the morning, spending some time at Sao Francisco Bend, which is interesting if somewhat distant from the actual track action. The photographers’ stand is about halfway up the hill, which means you need a long lens, and…

Travel 2003 – Macau, Day 6

Thursday, 13th November 2003 – Macau, Day 6 The first day at the track was entertaining, and we wandered out to Melco to have a good look around and take lots of photos. We didn’t ask for photographers access, but we were given it anyway. The reason we didn’t bother asking is that in previous…

Travel 2003 – Macau, Day 5

Wednesday, 12th November 2003 – Macau, Day 5 Today was a very lazy, easy sort of day, preparatory to the first real race day tomorrow. The last things you want is to be too tired to function when there are F3 cars whizzing past your elbow at the Melco Hairpin. We decided to take Glyn…

Travel 2003 – Macau, Day 2

Sunday, 9th November 2003 – Macau, Day 2 Still somewhat jet-lagged, we wandered down to breakfast late, having already watched some of the day’s activities on TV in our rooms – most notably the Mini race that they seemed to be having trouble starting, never mind finishing. The idea of racing Minis around here is…

Travel 2003 – Macau, Day 1

Saturday, 8th Nov 2003 – Macau, Day 1 We arrived a bit hung-over from the sleeping tablets, though nowhere near as bad as we would have been without them I suspect. The people from Estoril Tours scraped us up at the arrivals area in Hong Kong airport, and shepherded us to the shuttle bus they…