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Previous | Contents | Next The check-in kiosks were new and unfamiliar, and neither they nor the security scanners liked my passport, which had developed a mark of some sort on the photo page. The Baggage Check hall was full of passengers, more new machinery, several processing lines — only one of ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next We discovered the Beach Street Bistrot in George Town accidentally. We’d gone to Armenian Street to see the sights, but left, rightly or wrongly, after only poking our noses into a couple of shops. After all — very special places excepted — if you’ve seen one you’ve ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next East Indies Mansion was another fine place to spend a week — an authentic heritage building steeped in history, the residence of one of the founding fathers of Penang; and now painstakingly restored to its original design and detail as the private mansion of a wealthy, 18th ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next After giving us a chance to compose ourselves, he led us along a path of concrete blocks, laid in pairs in the dirt, and up several steps to the dining room. I stepped carefully with my stick, spacey with tiredness, and was glad to take off my ... Read more
Previous | Contents | It felt good to be back in the arms of Pan Am First Class Standby for the flight to Bangkok. We landed in Delhi to refuel — sat on the tarmac while an Indian lady with downcast eyes tidied the cabin and swept around our feet with ... Read more
Sunda Kelapa 1992, Peter Connolly photos § This wasn’t our first visit to Indonesia. We’d spent a couple of days in Bangkok on a round the world adventure in 1980, and a few weeks on Bali a bit after that. I’d also had a week or two’s work trip on ... Read more