https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/blog/world-travel/ Recent content in World Travel on Reardon Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Copyright © 2021, Reardon Yang. Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bangkok/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bangkok/ A city is a whole composed of many things: a whole of memory, a whole of desire, a whole of the signs of a language… A city is like a sponge, soaking up these ceaselessly flowing tides of memory, and expanding as it does. — Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino) This Mid-Autumn Festival, my fourth time in Bangkok. Still the streets are full of sawasdee, the whole city restless and alluring. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/hong-kong/ Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/hong-kong/ Yesterday I took my mother on a trip to Hong Kong, crossing the border at Futian Port, there and back in a day. The schedule was tight, the trip rushed, and with the unrest in Hong Kong these days I was wary — in short, it wasn’t as enjoyable as it could have been. By chance, before coming, I had just watched Tokyo Story. In the film, when they first arrived in Tokyo, the mother said: “So Tokyo is this close.