tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post9043750940701975158..comments2024-11-05T03:08:21.490-08:00Diane Dorrans Saekshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259292681678952448[email protected]Blogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-59850023869144987222012-09-21T03:42:38.560-07:002012-09-21T03:42:38.560-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jeane M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08624892791110371625[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-70996291490729639962012-09-20T15:39:10.984-07:002012-09-20T15:39:10.984-07:00Dear SMR--!!<br />I love hearing this. <br />Road to Mandalay is a rare experience...New Year&#39;s on board must have been wonderful.<br />Thank you for your vivid memories.<br /><br />Dear Griffin-<br />Thank you for your wonderfully poetic and warm comments and notes. Rangoon Cottage, indeed! I hope you meet the owners.<br />you are right that I want to take my lovely readers along with me...and especially for my readers to be inspired, to let go of inhibitions about travel (fearing traveling along for example...I would say it is the world&#39;s greatest luxury...though I love to see friends when I arrive or on the way...but I love adventuring relying on myself and the great people I meet along the way).<br />Yes, WINGED ENERGY OF DELIGHT...that is my motto when I travel. The delight was constant in Burma...i can&#39;t wait to return.<br />HELLO FRANCES--<br />Please post and repost and place on FACEBOOK...and send out the word. Burma is not scary and it is not North Korea and if the generals are horrible that is not my interest. I go searching for beauty and human-ness and creativity and people doing great things. I look at historic buildings and appreciate the culture in Burma. I am not an NGO and I don&#39;t have a political agenda...never when I travel. I don&#39;t go to India looking for political angles. Far from it. In Burma--I am looking at the culture, the people (wonderful), and I immerse myself in the highest expressions of a culture...art and spirituality, the landscape, people living their lives, and meeting heroes like the school teachers and Dr Hla Thyn whom I wrote about.<br />Just go there. Frances...so pleased you liked and want to pass on to friends--best DIANEDiane Dorrans Saekshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02259292681678952448[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-71360442464350591022012-09-20T15:18:16.644-07:002012-09-20T15:18:16.644-07:00Dear Dianne,<br />I would love to repost this and link to your other posts on Burma. It is a keen interest of mine at present and your wonderful photos and writings would delight my readers. Let me know - and we&#39;ll communicate on our regular emails?<br />From an ardent fan,<br />Frances SchultzFrances Schultzhttp://www.francesschultz.com.[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-69503678679544633862012-09-20T12:56:46.661-07:002012-09-20T12:56:46.661-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.A Super Dilettantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02640893790909916004[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-64158992022602531962012-09-20T12:51:14.884-07:002012-09-20T12:51:14.884-07:00I have been readng your posts on Myanmar with interest and envy.<br /><br />I was there at last christmas and new year. <br /><br />I visisted the Govenror&#39;s residence for dinner..but stayed in a hotel the middle of Yangon.<br /><br />We were lucky enough to spend New years Eve on the Road to Manadaly ..I loved our voyage on her.<br /><br />Myanmar now has my heart/..the most fantstic place I have ever been.smr[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-36983760601842991222012-09-20T06:06:23.197-07:002012-09-20T06:06:23.197-07:00Diane<br /><br />No, I haven&#39;t (yet) been to the new Siam, but will do so and meet Blair. As we&#39;re about to be deluged again, I shall perhaps wait until the rain has abated, and hope the Siam survives. Living by the river has its hazards in Bangkok. Actually in many areas too, but luckily in Sathorn, next to The Sukhothai it&#39;s dry, as last year. columnisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03764365428633038329[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-87373638238590013182012-09-19T20:10:48.139-07:002012-09-19T20:10:48.139-07:00Dear Katie-<br /><br />Thank you. Yes, the mood at Governor&#39;s Residence is so romantic and otherworldly (well, Burma is like that).<br />Patrick Robert has created architecture and decor (based on the original colonial-era residence) that is like &#39;oriental fantasy&#39; times one hundred.<br />Even in a tropical rainy season downpour it was so romantic. I did not want to depart.<br /><br />Dear CorCol-<br />I think you&#39;d be happy to know that The Governor&#39;s Residence has been really spiffed up. It gleams--and indoors and outdoors are all very refreshed and wonderful. It is sometimes a surprise to find that hotels in places like Jaipur or Hyderabad or remote places in Brazil...have price tags that are remarkably similar to hotels in Manhattan or Paris. That is the hotel world. I felt that the Governor&#39;s Residence tariff was not so high (included a superb breakfast, in the European manner or pricing) and a fantastic experience. Burma prices will inevitably rise (as they have in Bangkok.) One a &#39;new hotel&#39; note--have you dropped in to the new THE SIAM...final touches being made. Have lunch there beside the river...in old Jim Thompson houses...chef is Blair, say hello to him...he is fantastic and very talented and engaging.<br />happy days, DIANEDiane Dorrans Saekshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02259292681678952448[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-15353106909807818912012-09-19T19:59:07.789-07:002012-09-19T19:59:07.789-07:00I had lunch here during my stay in 2004. Like all things in Burma then it was in need of a bit of TLC. I have been looking at returning, but the prices have escalated, so the kerching factor is catching pretty quickly.columnisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03764365428633038329[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-88827005416328875292012-09-19T15:27:32.150-07:002012-09-19T15:27:32.150-07:00What an absolutely beautiful hotel! I can see why you lingered here....why go anywhere else?!Anonymous[email protected]