La Rochelle is a coastal city in southwestern France and capital of the Charente-Maritime department. It’s been a center for fishing and trade since the 12th century, a maritime tradition that’s reflected in its old harbour and huge, modern marina. The old town has half-timbered medieval houses and Renaissance architecture, including passageways covered by 17th-century…
I left off in the last blog with Su’s broken Samsonite which we loaded onto Kenny’s Jaguar XF for the trip to London. We had a dinner date with Lincoln and his wife Doris in Central London. We never did visit Nottingham town centre which according to Kenny would be at least 30 minutes’ drive…
I left off Saturday night when we were expected to join Mei-Mei’s Church service on Sunday at 2pm, but were told that the Ukrainian couple had called off the planned dinner for Sunday because of a broadcast football match involving their country’s team. Su hatched a revised plan overnight. We were to attend a Church…
I would begin by going back to the very small hours of April 27. Su had set the alarm clock for 3:30am to make sure we would leave Mei Foo at 5:15am by taxi to Tsing I to catch the first train to the Airport at 6am, so as to make the 8am flight to…
Now that we have been back to base for a week, I thought I’d better put in words some of what happened in the first serious travels Su and I had for over three years before memories began to fade. First, the itinerary. It began with a need for me to be in London in…
Bosco, Rosita’s brother, asked what other birthdays can one have other than one’s biological birthday. He was reacting to Su’s FB post on the subject. To the rhetorical question, I acknowledge that while there can only be one day on which one was born, a person can celebrate one’s birthday on more than one occasion…
Since my last blog, we continued our eating and drinking and I had cut more cakes, albeit symbolically at times, and today marked our 14th wedding anniversary, which historically and traditionally has been represented by ivory, as Su had broadcast on Facebook this morning. However, ivory has now become an issue because of poaching and…
This blog could be longer than usual, after the long holiday that we all had. Indeed, most employees would have needed only to take two or three days leave to be away from office or work for nearly two weeks, so that most offices were not quite staffed for any real work during the fortnight….
April has become my birthday month after I found out late in life that I was born on a date other than the one recorded on my Identity Card which has been 7 April from time immemorial and based on which record I turned 75 yesterday. Yesterday was indeed an epochal day. It marked the…
Facebook today invited me to share a picture of me taken 13 years ago to date, which I did. It was one featuring me beside a flowering iron tree or Dracaena fragrans by its botanical name in a friend’s office. I was smiling. When Su saw it, she remarked that I looked very young then,…
