Our trip since Hong Kong has been very interesting. We reached Macau by ferry and took the bikes for the first time since we arrived. We rode british-style in the ex-portuguese colony and experienced the asian traffic. This city is realy strange; a mixture of kitsh Vegas casinos and portuguese ruins and architecture..and people are Chinese!
The next day, we navigated through the Chinese border of Zhuai and managed to get lost in the turmoil of that ugly place! The roads are like giant highways and we felt as we were riding on Montreal's metropolitan hwy. Finally, a policemen directed us towards a road that seemed like the right one.
I thought I was dreaming when we saw a cycling club from Macau. They were about 17 cycling gods riding in the same direction as us! They were very well equipped and organized. With them, we took over a full lane on the highway! That was just plain glorious!
We joined them for lunch and they generously invited us to the hotel they were heading to. Around big Chinese cities, quiet country roads are scarce and it means you have to ride on the highway for training!
We had supper together and as some of them were fluent in English, we brished up our Chinese and learnt more about the good manners in this part of the world. They were a great group and we will bring them along with us in our memories.
Unfortunately, the Chinese computer I am using is working very well but I am unable to read the mandarin caracters...So no picture of our great macanese/canadian super cycling team for now.
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Wow c'est vraiment cool ton voyage!! Continue a nous donner des nouvelles!! Momo xxx
Il est assez peu question de mon frère dans ce blog, où sont ses bons mots d'esprit, est-il déjà brûlé?
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