Travel in Style, was my modus operandi for a few years of my life. Of every 30days, I would be spending 10days up in the air and on some foreign land (foreignly China).
Tag: travel
Archaic
I discovered a very archaic notion today: that the best travel adventures are far far far away.
A Photo a Week Challenge: Over 100 Years Old
Where you are looking from, all the way to where the guard stands, is the thickness of that ancient Xi’an city wall.
Vine lines
Wine-tasting exercises averaging 25 types a sitting (or standing) is bound to have any person wear her heart on the sleeve.
Water lines
Took me a while to figure what kind of lines can astonish. I am pleasantly surprised to recall one such line – a Roman aqueduct in Segovia!
Gaudi-an lines
The most consistently rivuletine lines I have seen are those of Antoni Gaudí. His inspiration from, and mimicry of, mother nature is stupendous.
Wat lines
To get myself out of that pattern of dense thoughts and feels, I have put up this collage of pictures more in the form of “wat-the-heck” lines.
Parisian lines
This is Musée d’Orsay. Its steel arch structure with glass arch ceiling casts amazing shadows on itself as the light filters through.
Arabian nights
So many crevices for Genie to hide. So many nooks and crannies for multiple genii to spring a surprise.
Confusionism
The glorious academic plans were thwarted by an offer to develop a huge-ass farm in SzeChuan.
The Weir
A separate pilot new town project was inchoate and we were just waiting to get over the red tape to start on the detailed work.
The long haul
A long haul project of four years brought me to a city that now sits very close to my heart. I worked on Yangzhou, flying in and out every three weeks.
