Of course you could shop in the most luxurious malls in Hong Kong, with marble floors, feng shui, expensive shops and maxed out air conditioning forming ice flowers on the shopping windows, but for me the busy streets and markets that you find all over are a lot more interesting! Do you need new fish for your aquarium? Perhaps fresh fish for eating? Or some dried fish? Everything is available.

At the yearly Ching Ming festival, the Chinese send their ancestors all kinds of gifts by burning paper versions of them at their gravesides. Paper money, clothes, luxury cars with drivers and even iPhones and iPads are offered. The most surprising gift for the beyond that I found however was a paper massage chair. Being dead even got more relaxing now!

Adrienne and me visited Hong Kong’s Sha Tin horse racecourse. It was a nice experience even though we didn’t really understand the rules. We lost twice but won a third time and played even.

With 25 degrees Celsius Eindhoven was the hottest place in Holland this Saturday. Combined with a PSV soccer match you have Eindhoven at its best. People and dogs getting baked at the coffee shop “The bakery”, public drunkenness on Stratumseind, PSV soccer fans, Noord Brabant stickers everywhere, and perhaps the strangest of all; a big ‘gumball’-globe to stick your used chewing gum on. Ah, home!