Cities

[mylesk]

Intercontinental cities I have visited: Beijing, Shanghai, Brussels, Paris, Venice, Florence, Palermo, Rome, Manila, Bangkok, and Tokyo.

That's actually not a bad looking list of cities. There were actually seven others in China, but I don't count them. If I can't even remember their names (Wu Xi? Ching An?) then I shouldn't count them. What I

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[ed_rex]

Poorer people become the involuntary curators of the old ways of doing things, and the destination objects for foreign tourists.

That was very well put. While in Cuba two or three years back, I tried hard (and still try in retrospect) to watch that I wasn't romanticizing the undeniable material poverty there, while at the same time trying to see the positive aspects of that society for what they were. (Or what they seemed to be, based on my nine days of walking around a couple of cities without being able to speak the language.)

ETA: For some reason I am unable to reply to your post in my own journal's style, which is quite annoying (and probably not your fault). But I feel compelled to tell somebody.

[mylesk]

Thanks for the comment. And thank you very much for posting again. I have a vague sense of rejuvenation to see copy on my Friends List.

[ed_rex]

You're welcome, on both counts. I've missed this forum - more than I'd realized. And I really hope I stick around this time!