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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 century Chinese merchant. Or so…
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 boots. The dining room opened…
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 a whisk — and took…
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 Java — now, that was…