... loud, busy, electrical wires draping willy-nilly like someone went wild with a can of black crazy string, polluted canals and murky rivers, and houses on piles, porches full of laundry...
( see for yourself )

 mana_trini  put up some more New Zealand photos.

Once again I'm letting the poor dear down.  This cold has got me wiped and coughing like my lungs are as hot and humid as the Bangkok air. The smoggy outdoors just isn't for me right now.  Once more, I shall stay in bed and rest while Julien enjoys galivanting around, this time: a night at the Ratchadamnoen ( Read more... )

We hired a taxi to take us to the Singapore airport, and we once again got to enjoy driving down streets lined with arching, gracious trees, a fitting farewell to an agreeable city.  When we first arrived in Singapore, it was after 10 pm, and the trees were magical in the streetlights, their carefully pruned branches snaking, vinelike, to form a ( Read more... )