by janet | Dec 13, 2015 | Burma, Myanmar
What strange phenomena we find in a great city. All we need to do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. Charles Baudelaire What is it that lures us back to places we have been previously? One of my first walks in Yangon on this...
by janet | Dec 12, 2015 | Burma, Myanmar
This is Burma. And it is unlike any land you know. Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling, the bard of the British Empire, was right when he wrote: ‘This is Burma. And it is unlike any land you know about.’ He could equally have said, ‘And Yangon (Rangoon in his...
by janet | Dec 11, 2015 | Burma, Myanmar
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it. Lucy Maud Montgomery, Exactly a year ago (December 2014), I was in Myanmar, the Burma I heard about in my childhood. It was not for the first time. Burma, as it was then, entered my imagination during my...
