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...]
Huong Giang Hotel, 1991
I've been on a Vietnam novel kick for the past couple weeks. And when I read about Vietnam, I can't help but think back to my trip there 20 years ago. It was one of the highlights of my then-20 year life (and still is, although I'm not 20 anymore).When I arrived in Hue in … [Read more...]
The legend of Thomas Glover
When I came across some slides labeled Thomas Glover's house, I wondered if my mom and her friends had met another old Japan hand in Nagasaki and were invited over for tea or something.So I googled Thomas Glover and learned he was a Scottish trader straight out of a James … [Read more...]
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