hirteen hours sitting in a plane is about my limit, even in the rarified atmosphere a little closer to the front than the tail. But if today’s experiences in San Francisco of lightning-quick entry formalities, and a sunny Spring day could always be guaranteed, I might reconsider and suffer the longer journey more often. Only …
Phew! Dubrovnik is hot. It teems with so many tourists. It”s like a Disneyland.My room in the little 3-Star Hotel Stari-grad within the walls of the old city is quaint but I didn”t feel that way last night lugging a 26kg suitcase up four flights of steps to my room. Not only for my knees, …
Beijing is charging into the 21st century – it”s hard to believe that on my first visit here in 1985, there was not one single neon light; the traffic jams were with bicycles; and at the one major hotel, you had to line up at breakfast to put a slice of bread through a toaster …
For a small island in the tropics,Singapore never ceases to amaze. The Singapore that was . . . in a small street near my hotel. The Singapore that is . . . with the Sands SkyPark infinity pool floating 200 metres in the sky atop the three soaring Marina Bay Sands Hotel towers. On a …