Yesterday I enjoyed a delightful lunch with fellow alumni from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The director of the alumni association was in town and brought us all a package of these beautiful postcards.Twenty years ago this summer I flew off to Hong Kong to start my … [Read more...]
China tours, 1981
I love this 1981 ad for China tours. This poor guy looks like he just returned from the Long March.The text in this ad reads:China has only recently begun to develop its potential as a destination for the traveller.That's kind of an understatement.Back then, you … [Read more...]
Japanese treasure trove
My mom brought me this stash of green tea from Japan last week. Japanese green tea is my favorite.The tea on the left and in the center (in the white bag) is genmaichai, or roasted rice tea. If you look closely at the bag on the left, you can see brown pieces of roasted rice … [Read more...]
South African Airways ad, 1981
I recently found this South African Airways ad in a magazine from 1981 at my grandma's house.South African Airways was the only airline back then to fly non-stop between New York and Johannesburg. (My grandparents traveled there a decade earlier and flew KLM via … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Last Resort
This week I read another memoir about Zimbabwe. It's my fourth and I can't get enough.In The Last Resort (Crown, 2009), travel writer Douglas Rogers chronicles his parents' downward spiral as life in Zimbabwe falls apart.Like Peter Godwin's memoir, When the Crocodile Eats … [Read more...]
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