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Big Buildings, Beautiful Nature, and More to Contemplate in Malaysia as the Voyage of Rediscovery Goes on

Big Buildings, Beautiful Nature, and More to Contemplate in Malaysia as the Voyage of Rediscovery Goes on

Those are the famous Petronis Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s buzzing capital city. You may recall them in the nail-biter film Entrapment, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery. The film was made in 1999, a year after the towers’ completion, and they were the tallest buildings in the world at the time, a title they held until 2004. Silly me, during my recent brief time in KL, as Kuala Lumpur is commonly known, I thought they still were the world’s…

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Passion, Pleasure, and Green Curry in Thailand on My Voyage of Rediscovery

Passion, Pleasure, and Green Curry in Thailand on My Voyage of Rediscovery

  In my novel Don’t Try Any of This, second volume in the Little Rosie Trilogy, the main character arrives in Bangkok and expresses the differences she sees in the city from Paris, where she has been living. “Bangkok is so different from Paris. I can see that right away, from the moment we arrive and step out of the plane. And I see more of the differences on our first day here, a day of R&R after that long…

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