Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Strand Hotel in Rangoon -- phew!

http://www.thestar.com/travel/asiapacific/article/804591--yangon-s-the-strand-is-still-a-grande-old-dame

Might meet a junta plant "monk" in the men's rest room, as a western reporter did during the Saffron Reviolution in Sept 2007.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--I have a volume of her short stories--which I like a great deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala