Haikou: Not a Japanese Poem
While many Vikings keep saying ‘High-coo,’ this modern city with an architecturally interesting Old Town is not a 17-syllable Japanese...
Hong Kong, Part Two
The Peak Tram: One of oldest funicular railways in the world, it climbs 1300 feet up Victoria Mountain to Victoria Peak, the highest...
Hong Kong, Part One
The Man Mo Temple Hong Kong reminds me of Juneau… both are cities squeezed onto land and islands between mountains and water. Though Hong...
Suzhou: Old China By Boat
For me, the name Suzhou (‘Sue-joe’) will always evoke a 1500-year-old city of canals and canal-side houses festooned with comforters, but...
Shanghai Shindig
Blog photographer at work, after the extravaganza We were given a choice: Sign up for an expensive evening at the Chinese Acrobatic Show,...
Public Service Announcement
There’s still trouble in River City. When I ‘publish’ a new post, that’s supposed to immediately trigger an e-mail notification to your...
Shanghai: The Paris of the East
‘…Shanghai, which in 1935, Fortune called “the megalopolis of continental Asia, inheritor of ancient Baghdad, of pre-war Constantinople,...
Dance, Duds & Dim Sum
Okay, it was Shumai, but that doesn’t alliterate. Dance... A dance and instrumental troupe from Manila came on board Sunday to perform in...
Je cuis’, donc je suis.
I cook, therefore I am. Or, better still, Je mange, donc je cuis’. My bridge buddies will be disappointed that I’m not playing much...
Manila: The Pearl of the Orient
Jeepneys are everywhere.. cheap local transport Welcome to ‘the most densely populated city proper in the world’ [Wiki], with 1.8...
