Whilst sitting in the hotel lobby on Friday night, Alison decided to start reading up on Vietnam.
The first page that she turned to happen to mention that you need a visa before you enter - Oops !!
Not only didn't we have a visa for Vietnam, but as far as the Hong Kong government were concerned we were leaving the country the next day.
For all of you who questioned why I took my laptop, well this more than justified it.
We sat on the internet in the lobby until 3am the next morning, reading up on the visa process for Vietnam, finding where the embassy is located in Hong Kong, finding another country who would take us without a visa and finally using Skype to phone United Airlines to make a change to our flights.
Hence the change of plan to Macau.
We intend to stay here until Monday, when we will travel back to Hong Kong and try to get our visa sorted out.
Well we fell on our feet with this slip up, as Macau is one place that you wouldn't want to miss.
Its an ex Portuguese country, which like Hong Kong was handed back to the Chinese.
The difference is that it hasn't been runind by sky scrapers, with much of the old Portuguese buildings still intact and in the main areas most have also been restored.
Its a strange combination, seeing Chinese and Portuguese culture mixed together but it works quite well from a tourist point of view.
You get all the quirky aspects of Chinese culture set out in really nice styled buildings.
A couple of photos taken from around the main square in Macau.
Even in the backstreets the buildings have been restored, although the insides of the shops look no different to the ones in China.
This is a sharks fin, which for some strange reason is a real delicacy over here.
The sad fact is that they dont use any other part of the shark, so it is thrown back in the sea to die.
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