photos by ron cruz
We are both caffeine fueled creatures (Homo sapiens caffeinensis fabulousness). Starbucks is a basic necessity and it can be found at the bottom of our food pyramid. So it is imperative to say that whenever we travel we make it a point that we spend several unproductive hours sitting on an al fresco chair, shifting to trance mode while almost robotically sipping our fix.
It is also our way of recharging the energy that we exhausted while walking around the city. So we found a Starbucks shop (the …

Macau shares a colonized past with the Philippines. The Portuguese stayed in the island for more than 400 hundred years and had set up the city to look like Lisbon, their capital. This holds evident looking at the black and white cobbled-stone streets on Lagro De Senado as well as streets and alleys leading to government offices and famous landmarks of Macau. Even the buildings have an Iberian air.

Lagro De Senado is a converging point where people would find designer and local boutiques and Chinese and Macanese restaurants lined up, …