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Share click to enlarge I know I haven’t exactly raved about my trip to Tahiti in the late 80s, but my grandparents loved the many vacations they took there. When I was young, I traipsed around the house wearing multiple strands of necklaces my grandparents bought in Tahiti, the tiny brown and white shells strung [...] Share click to enlarge When my grandma brought over a box of matchbooks from her travels last month, I found one from a Hong Kong restaurant called the Golden Crown. I’d never heard of it. With a Nathan Road address in Tsim Sha Tsui, it must have closed by the time I got to Hong [...] Share click to enlarge I found this ad for Japanese tourism in a 1981 magazine targeted to American airline employees. The guy in the photo really seems to be trying: dressing in yukata, staying at a Japanese inn, and reading Shogun (on my first couple of trips to Asia, I read James Clavell novels on [...] Share click to enlarge I love this ad from 1959, advertising Hong Kong as a shopper’s paradise. Apart from the obligatory faux Chinese brushstroke font, I’m struck by this brochure because it reminds me of Hong Kong’s amazing history all while life on the mainland fell apart at this time. Just ten years after the [...] Share Rainbow's End by Lauren St John Ah, another memoir of growing up in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. I just can’t get enough. This week I read my 5th in this genre, Lauren St John’s Rainbow’s End (Scribner, 2007). St John grows up on a farm in rural Rhodesia, before the war in the late 1970s that would [...] |
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