Posts Tagged ‘Shopping’

Retail Therapy in Jakarta

12
Nov
1

One of the world’s largest cities, Jakarta a.k.a. The Big Durian is a shopper’s Mecca. Officially Jakarta’s permanent population is approximately 10 million. Unofficially the number swells to 30 million when daily commuters to centrally located workplaces are added to the overall body count. Apparently, if you don’t sleep in Jakarta province, you’re not considered […]

Category: Travelling Written by Tom Neal Tacker 0 Comments

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London’s Best Digs?

10
Nov
1

Famous grand hotels in London aren’t hidden away are they? The Savoy. The Connaught. Claridges. Brown’s. The Dorchester. Ask any London cabbie to take you to anyone of these hotels and the driver could probably get you there blindfolded. Much as I like the grand entrances and ‘olde worlde’ atmosphere of those hotels, the Taj […]

Category: FeaturesIndulgence Written by Tom Neal Tacker 0 Comments

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Shanghai, the New Jerusalem

28
Oct
1

There’s always a New Jerusalem isn’t there? Once it was London, then came New York’s turn. Remember the film ‘Working Girl’? Well, now the New Jerusalem must be Shanghai. Founded on prostitution, the drug trade and no holds barred trading tussles between rival colonial powers, this megalopolis strutting up from the mudflats of the Yangzi […]

Category: Bohemian Written by Tom Neal Tacker 0 Comments

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