It has warmed up quite a bit in Macau and now we are in the monsoon season - the humidity is increasing and the daytime temperature is hitting 30 or more consistently. I don't find this too bad when humidity is 70% or so, but when it gets to 90% humidity it gets more uncomfortable. Pleasantly the skies have really cleared in the last few …
On 10 January 2007 Cathy, Richard, Stephen, Matthew and Claire Eaton arrived to live in Macau, China. Macau is a special administrative region (SAR) of China, just like Hong Kong. It was under the colonial rule of Portugal for 300 years and was handed back to China in 1999. It is on the opposite bank of the Pearl River Delta to Hong Kong, and can be reached by ferry in just one hour from there. There are 500,000 residents of Macau and 15 million visitors annually. These visitors alm…
On 10 January 2007 Cathy, Richard, Stephen, Matthew and Claire Eaton arrived to live in Macau, China. Macau is a special administrative region (SAR) of China, just like Hong Kong. It was under the colonial rule of Portugal for 300 years and was handed back to China in 1999. It is on the opposite bank of the Pearl River Delta to Hong Kong, and can be reached by ferry in just one hour from there. There are 500,000 residents of Macau and 15 million visitors annually. These visitors almost all come for the gambling as Macau has now overtaken Las Vegas in annual revenue terms for gambling. The largest group of gamblers are the mainland chinese, followed by the Hong Kong chinese. We are in Macau as Rich is building a casino called "City of Dreams". The kids are attending The International School of Macau (known as TIS) which is run under curriculum from Alberta, Canada. Macau has an interesting mix of colonial buildings, chinese temples, high rise apartments and about 25 casinos. The key feature really is the amount of building work constantly being undertaken. It is just 30 square kilometres (but growing every year due to land reclamation) spread over three islands which are linked by bridges and causeways. The main island is Macau, then Taipa (where the site is, where we live and where the school is) and there is a smaller island which is the recreation island called Coloanne.
It has warmed up quite a bit in Macau and now we are in the monsoon season - the humidity is increasing and the daytime temperature is hitting 30 or more consistently. I don't find this too b…
On the first weekend in June we visited a themed tourist area in Panyu, Guangzhou called Chimelong. The area has two hotels, a water park, a fun park, a crocodile park, a safari park and a ci…
A few weeks ago we had a fabulous week in Beijing. Personally I never thought I would go to China and to walk on the Great Wall was a rather awe inspiring experience. There are several secti…
david sliwinski
hi eaton family!!!!! just thought that i should write something as i'm feeling bad that i read your updates but dont reply! how are you all going? all is good here as autumn is in full swing. warm days and nights cooling right down. rugby has started for tom and the dentist says that james can play soccer! hannah is getting VERY terrible two's,and kate is coping and i'm just plugging away at the coal face or should that be the screen???!!!!! the photos look great and the stories are even better! we hope that you all look after yourselves! talk soon!!!
