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...Payment? No payment. You must be joking. You’re my guest,” the “owner” says. Suddenly all’s clear. Naively I’ve wandered into this man’s home. How do I get out without seeming impolite or scared? His manner is intimidating: when I attempt to refuse his offer, he insists with enormous emphasis. Perhaps he is a little strange in the head, or maybe just slightly inebriated. I decide to go with the latter. Five minutes later, we sit in front of two large...
...have come as a guest of the Crown Prince, “Dasho Khesar” to those familiar to him. My eldest brother, Dan, went to Oxford with Dasho a few years ago and they were good friends. In the beginning, I think of him as just a friend of my brother’s. The day I arrive, Dasho stops by to welcome me. Eight bodyguards wait outside while we drink milk tea and chat about Dan, Boston, my work here in Bhutan for the Royal Society for the Protection of Nature. Later, Dasho meets me for dinner...
After an hour-long preparation, the actual ceremony can finally commence. Before drinking the tea, the host gives the guest a few pieces of candy to compensate for the very bitter tea, which chado practitioners freely admit is “an acquired taste.” In contrast to the lengthy set-up, the actual drinking of the tea takes a few moments...
...even though each admits that his work is informed by his roots in unexpected ways. "I am not the type to splash dragons all over the clothes," says Som, 33, who grew up in San Francisco, the son of Hong Kong-born architects. Indeed, his clothes are more C.Z. Guest than Suzy Wong, yet he acknowledges that his clean lines and color sense are inspired by traditional Asian architecture and the vibrancy of Asian textiles...
...about on multitoned green grass. Fluorescent yellow coconut-scented gorse growing next to electric colored bluebells signaled that, stormy weather aside, this was indeed spring. The next morning the skies cleared and the weather turned summery. Rachel Whyte, a co-proprietor of and the chef at the Glenmachrie Country Guest House, fed me some surprisingly mild-tasting smoked kippers, which, had it not been morning, would have paired well with a Bowmore 17year-old. Bowmore, on the north part of the island, is one of two remaining distilleries (Laphroaig, the other) still peat smoking their barley in house...