Love Lane

     We have just returned from Penang, in Malaysia. This is a lovely place, but it is far to be one of my favorite cities in the world. Anyway, this was one of the best travels I have ever experienced. It was fun to stroll the streets of the old town hand in hand with you, try new tastes and climb Penang Hill - a high one - with you at the end of our last day there. Many times we talked about finding a way to live together along the next year. We will keep an eye on opportunities in Asia, Europe or South America in order to be living in the same place. And many times we looked at each other like two teenagers in love, despite of being in our mid-fourties.

     I could repeat the common place that I love Paris, for exemple. I have been there many times, one of them with you. But none of my sojourns in the City of Light was so pleasant as this one in the much more modest Penang in the hottest time of the year in Southeast Asia. I still think about that delicious Chinese breakfast you decide to have instead of the conventional one in the hotel.

     By the way, our hotel - a stylish small one - was located in a street named Love Lane, a very appropriate place for us. If you knew how I appreciate your companionship, your talks, your smile...

     This is my last day in Asia this time. Tomorrow I will fly back to Europe. But I will never forget this first approach to this lovely part of the world that you love so much. Perhaps I will be here with you someday.