Jeremy HildrethMonthly Archives: April, 2009
Cuban origin
People usually tease me when I ask for three sugars in my coffee. “It works better that way,” I insist.
There’s no sweeter coffee than a café Cubano, and although obviously the beans don’t come from Cuba (I bet I could write a separate article on the lure of forbidden provenance), the espressos at the La [...]
Sao Paulo surprise
Feeling to me like a dangerous, antagonistic, dysutopian Latin edition of Tokyo, this city has failed to much endear itself to yours truly. But while out for jog, this sprang up, and I nabbed it with my cell phone.
Easter Island five days after Easter
This morning I stood with the moai at Ahu Tongariki and watched the sunrise, listening to Stockhausen’s Stimmung on my iPhone.
Recommended.
“If a place is trying to fake it, then it will be exposed.”
“I never said most of the things I said” said Yogi Berra.
I felt just like Yogi when I read over this article in the new issue of Business Traveller magazine which quotes me heavily, discussing my/Saffron’s work in Northern Ireland, London and Lithuania.
Luckily, most of what I said (or didn’t say) sounds half-way reasonable.
The loveable quirkiness of northeastern Europe
Yesterday was the national day of the Republic of Uzupis, the SoHo (NYC, as opposed to Soho, London) of Vilnius, Lithuania. I didn’t make it to Christiania – I’ve still never been to Copenhagen! – before they dismantled it, but I imagine this as a gentrified and more philosophically grounded version of the Danish self-declared [...]
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