Selamat datang daripada Langkawi, This is the story of two businesses in competition with each other. On the southern end of a peninsula – on Pulau Langkawi in northern Malaysia – is Tanjung Puteri Motel, run by a family who has invested everything into starting from scratch, to catch the boom in …Read More
Selamat datang daripada Langkawi, In the dying days of his presidency, Barack Obama said that whether we like it or not we live in an interconnected world. Here in Langkawi, Malaysia, there are very few who disagree, some who like it and some more who don’t like it. Globalisation came to this …Read More
Xin Chào from Đà Lạt, What thought process leads to the idea that you can make coffee out of beans after they have been through an animal? (??!!) We are in Đà Lạt for a weekend, looking for another patch of a fascinating country (me) and cooler weather (Linda). On the way to a visit …Read More
Xin chào tù Việt Nam, Here’s an unreserved recommendation – from both of us – for a possible tourist destination: Bạch Mã National Park. Linda jagged this destination when she was selecting places on spec, when she admittedly “didn’t have any idea what [she] was doing” when filling up our itinerary. And we’ve stumbled …Read More
Xin chào tù Việt Nam, If you visit Uluru, you would safely expect to see Australians in the flock of gawking tourists, right? If you ride the London Eye, there’ll be plenty of Poms on board with you. And if you visit the Taj Mahal, there are thousands of Indians in the strolling crowd, …Read More
Xin Chào tù Việt Nam, Whatever happened to the legal doctrine of quiet enjoyment of property? Granted, it’s private property those lawyers like to rabbit on about. But I think the concept should be applied to a wider definition of property; one which includes public places. After all, when we are enjoying …Read More
Xin chào tù Việt Nam, We’ve decided to postpone the trip to Yunnan in China due to lots of flooding there. Instead, we are taking the chance to see more of Việt Nam; first to Hà Nội in the north; Đà Nẵng and Hội An beach in the centre; finishing at Phú Quốc in …Read More
Namaste from India, There are some places whose experience is adequately captured on film. But some places are clearly not in that category. In a photograph – no matter how clever the photographer or how modern the camera, one cannot see the true splendour of the place. You simply can’t appreciate the true context. In the …Read More
Kuzu Sangpola from Bhutan, When the king of Bhutan decreed in 1972 that the country would measure Gross National Happiness as well as Gross National Product, he gave his country a unique selling point. The very concept has interested others sufficiently to put Bhutan on their bucket list (people like us, of course). …Read More
Kuzu Sangpola from Bhutan, Religion and superstition are horses from the same stable, I would contend. Here in Bhutan, almost everyone is Buddhist, following a fairly strict adherence to the teachings and content to play a communal role in protecting the culture from disturbance and unwanted incursions. In any religion, some irrational belief …Read More