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14 Mar 2011

In praise of rule benders, and Giotto

The Italian attitude to rules and regulations -- that they exist only for other people -- is one of the most maddening things about living here; except, of course, when it works for you.

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02 Oct 2009

Safe

It is always such a relief when the hotel room safe not only opens on the dimly remembered code but also still contains everything you put in it on arrival. I do sometimes wonder, though, what the point is. I suppose to make it more difficult to steal things. Doh! But every place I've ever stayed sp...

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01 Oct 2007

China 6 DE2XING4

It was pure good fortune that I read Victor Mair's guest post over at Language Log a couple of days ago. In it, Mair treats with loving respect the details of a sign seen at Silk Street Market in Beijing. The sign lists the Recommended Words and Forbidden Words for the benefit of the salesgirls at...

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29 Sep 2007

China 5

Panorama of Jingshang Park opposite the back entrance to the Forbideen City, with three pagodas symmetrically placed on the skyline

Yesterday was full-on tourist travel day. Summer Palace first thing in the morning. Then the Great Wall. Then lunch in an authentically exotic restaurant hard by the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park. Then the Forbidden City and finally Tiananmen Square. Nothing I could say about any of those places wou...

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26 Sep 2007

China 4

At last night’s banquet I sat next to an old China hand; he’s been coming here since 1985. He really appreciates the changes that have taken place. For me, the China of memory is a childhood picture. Huge squadrons of identically clothed androgynous workers bicycling through the smog. Drabness and g...

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4 days agoChecked into Ristorante Scarpone
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6 days agoThe Mayan maize god. A new scientific version of maize origins has just been published in Science, and one of the lead researchers talked to me for the latest episode of Eat This Podcast. https://eatthispodcast.com/maize
7 days agoChecked into 404 Caffe
1 wk agoTerrific 50km bike ride with the Rome chapter of FIAB. Absolutely glorious day
1 wk agoChecked into Via Maiella
1 wk agoBuilding community out of strangers – Tracy Durnell

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