Five long-haul sunshine breaks
11 May 2021
Five long-haul sunshine breaks
Keen to shake off the cobwebs with a far-flung escape? We’ve chosen some of the best-rated long-haul destinations that come into their own during autumn and winter.
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You can skip the crowds and savour cultural attractions all to yourself or soak in the sunshine on the other side of the world, with our pick of five city breaks.
Melbourne
Sister city, Sydney, is arguably the more popular spot for winter holidaymakers planning to spend Christmas on a beach and New Year’s Eve admiring the harbour. But Melbourne has its own charms likely to reinvigorate visitors on a sunshine break. As well as the city’s endless gardens, such as Fitzroy, to explore by day, Queen Victoria’s night-time food market with its stalls of food, art and fashion re-opens during Australia’s spring. Get a dose of beach life, with a stroll along the esplanade at St Kilda and pack your glad rags for Melbourne Cup ho
Publishers have a lot of power. Written material shapes thinking and conversations. When they choose a book or article, they are using physical and mental space that might have gone elsewhere.
For many, many years in the English-speaking countries, that space has gone to white cis men, excluding other voices. Compounding the exclusion has been misogyny in many of those men’s writing.
I gave up reading fiction a long time ago. It was all men’s viewpoints. When Henry Miller’s Tropics became legal in the US, I read them. An older male colleague asked me what I thought. I don’t recall my exact response, but it was along the lines of it being a viewpoint I didn’t recognize. And Norman Mailer and John Cheever and John Updike and Philip Roth and too many others.
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Among the literary treasures of Thailand is the famous work
Chindamani, Jewels of Thought . The oldest version of this work is attributed to the seventeenth-century monk and court astrologer Horathibodi of Ayutthaya. It is thought that he compiled it around 1670 in Lopburi for King Narai, but he may have drawn inspiration and knowledge from older texts. Although the original work has not been preserved physically, copies of it are held in numerous archives and libraries in Thailand and abroad.
Chindamani is a treatise about writing , covering vocabulary, orthography, grammar, loan words from Pali, Sanskrit and Khmer, literary styles and poetry conventions.