Your hotel is on fire – you scramble around your home/office/hotel room for something that will enable you to crawl the smoke-filled corridors and see …
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The lobby of a Chinese boutique hotel (above) jarring with the in-room Chinese-English bible (below). Two separate issues: the role of Christian faith in China; the …
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The hotel laundry form – a format that is as uniform as the business hotels that supply them. The guest lists the number of items …
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International day trips have a certain machismo about them – 4am starts trying not to wake sleeping babes whilst tiptoeing out of the hotel room, …
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A few days bouncing between meetings in the big smoke provides an opportunity to absorb the city through new eyes, an exploration that included four …
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In San Francisco/Monterrey/tha’ Valley until next Sunday. Don’t be shy. Yup, the SF dawn sho does take the edge off permaphuck.
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Clip outside this Shinagawa hotel room supporting the delivery of up to two newspapers.
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There’s always a slight frisson from spending a night in a hotel in your home city. Arrive at reception with no luggage aside from a …
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Flight into Beijing departs three hours late, and when our party eventually checks into the hotel its one in the morning. For some reason hotel …
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Cleaning staff wedging open a door using old copies of the Post.
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