Michael is in Java’s Central province, travelling east towards Surabaya.

A couple of years after that it was the United States; more recently we have travelled through India and Australia. It looks like a fascinating part of the world to explore. Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (born 26 May 1953) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative politician. He sees a display of photographs evoking the “harrowing” events of that conflict and does a piece to camera before the spot from which the American helicopters hurriedly fled from Saigon in 1975. I, too am drawn to libraries and this was with its huge bookcase atrium was stunning. thanks for sharing!After viewing the palace and the solitary guard on sentry duty, we continued along to the Merdeka Square Park but ended up having to walk a long way around its perimeter fence to find an entrance gate that was open as a number of them were padlocked for some unknown reason.Jakarta has retained some beautiful old colonial buildings creating a city of contrasts with its towering skyscrapers. The only downsides are traffic and pollution but at least the cars keep moving albeit slowly unlike Manila.

Sadly, the city does have its fair share of ramshackle accommodation some of which we viewed from the train windows coming in from the airport.Thank you for your welcome thoughts. He was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1984. I usually watch Portillo and his rail journeys but am a bit behind with my viewing so will look forward to watching the Great Asian routes.The colonial architecture in south east Asia is indeed beautiful and it’s good that at least small pockets of it have been retained as reminders of the past. Like Liked by 1 person.

With it being nearly the end of the second decade of the new millennium, the future of travel is here and it’s time to get smart with travel.The British journalist, TV presenter, former Deputy ConservativeParty leader and Cabinet Minister first rose to public attentionduring the Thatcher years before then becoming Secretary of Statefor Defence (and later Employment) during the John Majorgovernment.

Michael Portillo's 2,500-mile railway tour of South-east Asia reaches its southern most point in Indonesia, with stop-offs in Java and Jakarta among the highlights. He reflects on the Gucci and Prada stores and the embrace of the Western world in what is now Ho Chi Minh City, and finds himself wondering “who won the war?”In Hong Kong, of course, Portillo was actually in a country that could form the basis of a further series of rail adventures. Just came across your blog (where have I been all this time?!) And yet I was. I travelled by train through Java many years ago, so this was of particular interest to me. 15 / 20 On Penang, Michael Portillo traces the origins of the former British colony in Georgetown.

I saw lots and lots of paddy fields cut and worked into the hillsides in terraces which have probably been there for centuries,” he says.“In the New Territories and Lantau, there are walled villages and fishing communities that look as though they could be 2,000 miles away from the city.

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