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Discovering Amalia Rodrigues and Portugal
Call it Fate or Fado – it’s a national music obsession in Portugal and the voice that has reigned supreme from the mid 1940s till this day is the late great Amália’s. I bought two CD’s home from our travels to the northern medieval city of Guimarães recently and we listened to them the very…
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New York Excursion
In mid-February, we escaped to New York City for a dose of high art and theatre. The lure was the reopening of the fabulously renovated Islamic wing of the Metropolitan Museum. It turned out that the American Wing was also just reopened after a sprucing up. So the day we visited was an Islamic/American cultural…
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A Cup of Tea
Trying to decide on a tea to brew the other day, the choices before me brought back old experiences, habits and memories. Being a new year and all, I reminded myself to reach for the green rather than the black tea that I’ve always loved. In fact, for the longest time, the only kind of…
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Plugged, Unplugged or Barely Plugged?
Plugged, Unplugged or Barely Plugged?.
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A New Year’s Postcard
May there be plenty of blue skies, balmy breezes and good vibes in 2012. Despite the dire, apocalyptic expectations for 2012 in the Mayan calendar, I don’t believe a word of it. It’s been enjoyable writing this blog and keeping in touch with all of my family and friends through stories of our travels. I’ll…
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“Get thee to a nunnery…”
We weren’t exactly following Hamlet’s exhortation to Ophelia, when we took our visitor Victoria Vuletich to the Nan Lian Garden/Chi Lin Nunnery in Hong Kong’s Diamond Hill area in mid April. But we all discovered how beautiful and restful this Tang dynasty style Chinese garden and monastery complex is. It’s in fact a lovely green…
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