I spent the afternoon today ushering in the Year of the Rabbit with a group of friends in the Chicago suburbs.Although the outside temperature crept above freezing, we enjoyed a banquet of tasty Cantonese food indoors in the comfort of central heat.But my first Chinese … [Read more...]
Book of the week–If You Lived Here
About a year ago I spent a long weekend with my husband in San Francisco. On that trip I brought Dana Sachs's memoir, The House on Dream Street (Seal Press, 2003) with me everywhere. On BART, MUNI, on the ferry across the bay, at the Napa train station. I read it during every … [Read more...]
Metropole Hotel, Hong Kong
As a companion piece to Ali Swanson's fabulous guest blog yesterday, I just had to include this photo of an old beauty--Hong Kong's own Metropole Hotel.Hong Kong has actually been home to several Metropole hotels over the centuries. (The most recent Metropole was re-named the … [Read more...]
Guest blog–Ali Swanson and Hanoi’s Hotel Metropole, 1992
I'm so thrilled to share another guest blog by Ali Swanson, a good friend who lived in Vietnam in 1992. Here's Ali:Ahhh, the Hotel Metropole, a HaNoi classic!During my semester in VietNam, they were refurbishing this grand dame of colonial hotels. Sometime in April or … [Read more...]
Yesterday once more
So this is what the inside of the Huong Giang Hotel looked like 20 years ago. (The rooms have since been painted and spruced up.)Somehow that screen up front transformed into a mosquito net frame and hidden poles around the other corners of the bed sprang into action to hold … [Read more...]
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