Macau’s Venetian Hotel is Venice on steroids

Macau’s Venetian Hotel isn’t your quiet little neighborhood Bed and Breakfast.
With its 40 stories, 3000 suites and 980 000 square meters, it’s the fourth largest building in the world by area.
According to the Venetian website, the hotel is large enough to hold ninety Boeing 747 jumbo jets.
And after having visited the Venetian myself, I think [...]

Beijing bric à brac

When grandpa Zhang in Beijng cleans out his attic, he’s likely to find different stuff than grandpa Smith in Smalltown, USA.
No tacky 1950’s coffee pots, no freaky 1960’s hippy outfit, no funky 1970’s rugs.
Instead, your average Chinese might find propaganda pamphlets from the Cultural Revolution, some creaky old chairs that could have belonged to an [...]

A mall for young designers

I was ready to head back to my hotel after having walked around Chatuchak Weekend Market for the better part of the morning.
I was tired and looking forward to my hotel swimming pool, a nice cool drink and some relaxing music from my i-pod.
But when I got to the lower level at Kamphaeng Phet subway [...]

Shopping at the world’s biggest market

I’ve been to Bangkok dozens of times – it’s the hub I always have to go through when I’m travelling to another Asian country on business.
But if I thought I’d seen all the major sights in Bangkok, I was proven wrong on this stay.
I finally managed to head out to the Chatuchak Weekend Market. So [...]

Floored in Beijing

Beijing is fascinating in a million ways. Aside from all the ancient palaces and temples, the shopping and the great dining, there’s one “little” thing that absolutely amazed me during this visit.
It’s a gigantic LED video screen covering a downtown shopping street called The Place. Images of life underwater are projected onto the screen.

The deep [...]