Out of the country

We went on a very brief trip to Macau (the other SAR) today, a one hour ride on the Turbojet ferry (a high speed catamaran with Boeing jet engines strapped to the back) .
Macau's a funny place - very obviously Portuguese with the cobbled streets, cafes, scooters and Catholic churches, and very obviously Chinese too - shrines, incense, antiques and pawn shops.
It was our second time there, so we didn't do too much this time. After getting the bus into the old town, we managed to find a well-known cafe (Margarets cafe e nata) which is tucked away in a back street full of mopeds, and is famous for it's egg tarts.


Full of egg and pastry, we just wandered around the streets surrounding the main square, had a look in a few churches (but not in St Paul's as there's no "in" to look at - only the facade is standing now, which is probably what makes it so famous) and then went up to the museum which is set inside the old fortress. It's a pretty good one, with lots of reconstructions of old buildings, that kind of thing. By the time we'd finished, had lunch and walked around a bit more it was time to get back to our own Special Administrative Region, with just enough time to grab a bottle of Portuguese green wine from the duty free shop before we got the boat back.