We finally discovered a building in The Philippines worthy of an architectural review! (I wrote an article about it for ANZA mag/!1). The Pinto Art Gallery - about 45mins drive from Makati. Unheard of by most people - it was just lucky our friend Julia who has lived here for 5years has her contacts! We went there with Nick and Yoko and their kids Kai and Liana. It was a refreshing day out - great to get away from the concrete jungle and check out something inspiring. The next weekend we went to Hong Kong - what a great city! So much culture interweaved with modern high rises. It was great to get back to a first world city again - although the english is not so good. We stayed at Dave and Lynette's apartment and were very lucky to have their helper Hazel at our service (they were away on holidays). Disneyland was an experience - unfortunately we were there at a busy time and were not very happy about spending alot of time in queue's. The boys did enjoy it though - the highlight was the Donald duck 3d movie - and small world.
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| William, Liana, Kai and Charlie |
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| art at the gallery! |
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| simple, understated gallery spaces |
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| artwork |
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| one of the courtyards linking the galleries |
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| another one |
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| and another |
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| Me and Yoko at lunch at the Pinto Art Gallery |
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| WIlliam loves Hong Kong |
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| Pinnochio |
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| small world |
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| Charlie's favourite Winnie |
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| Fantasyland castle |
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| Waiting time at Toy Storey Land the reason we didn't go on any rides there |
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| Checking out the oversized toys was good enough! |
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| The Filipino maids on their day off in the streets in HK. There are hundreds of them all hanging out it is quite a sight - apparrently the reason is that they don't have their own rooms - some of them have to sleep in the kitchen! |
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| In a Kowloon Street |
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| Funeral decorations |
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| walking up to the giant buddah (better than DL) |
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| peace shanti shanti shanti |
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| the cool rainy day gave it alot of atmosphere |
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| Catching the cable car back down - much safer than the local bus we caught on the way up |
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| about to tuck into the giant muffin! |
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| apartments only in HK |
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| Kowloon street |
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| IM pei building |
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| Chilling out at Dave and Lynette's place - great to have some cool weather! |
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| Shanghai Tang store |
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