T It was New Year’s Day in Paris. Most of the brasseries and bars had remained open until five a.m., after splendid light displays at La Tour Eiffel and the Arc de Triomphe. The early-morning streets had been absolutely mobbed with couples and groups of people considerably younger than me. It was a love-fest of all the skin shades that …
You world travelers know that drying the laundry means hanging it out in whatever weather happens to follow. I have seen clean clothes hanging sodden on lines for a week or more during rainy winter weather all over Europe. Does this make them cleaner, or does it save a little on the rinse cycle? I imagine that in China the …