The flags are a-flutter above London streets, but it is at street level where the action is. Shop windows are all about The Jubilee. From food to clothes, from china to tea-towels, the windows follow just one theme. Some are very elaborate. Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge has gone all out with different vignettes. Inside Harrods food hall giant … [Read more...]
Countdown to the Royal Jubilee
London is awash with flags and bunting. Its time to party. Arrivals at London Heathrow are greeted with Union Jacks, souvenir booklets and a chance to write a message to the Queen. In Central London serious flags hang above Regent and Bond Street. Over at Buckingham Palace preparations are in full gear. Roads leading up to the Palace … [Read more...]
Goodbye Doyle Drive
Its gone. That ugly, rickety, outdated road, snaking from the Golden Gate Bridge to San Francisco's Marina and downtown, is no more. Friday night industrial sized jackhammers and equipment used to clear the devastation after 9/11 got to work. Under arc lights and with hovering helios sections of the road were sliced and toppled like … [Read more...]
Hanoi: A Day with Uncle Ho
Breakfast at the Metropole Hotel, Hanoi is quintessential time warp. Baskets of perfect freshly-baked buttery Croissants and Pain-au-Chocolates bookend one end of the buffet. Decor is French colonial Art Nouveau. There is music, of course. It is subtle, of course. It switches to the soundtrack from A Man and a Woman, that most romantic … [Read more...]
Laos, Land of a Million Elephants
Mekong Memories The first time I left Laos I took a sampan across the Mekong river. It was early morning. Air and water were still. I cradled a tiny silver ring in my hand, given to me by an old Meo woman. I knew I would return. A Return Visit to Laos nearly 40 years later This January, after my second visit, I left by air. As the prop plane … [Read more...]
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