Rattray's Old Gowrie with just a touch of Arcadia in an old beater Santis 205 (my traveling pipe with a lid, so it carries well in my pocket). The tobacco was good, the pipe OK, the tea fresh, but the setting was exquisite. Sitting atop a man-maid hill in Chang Geng Park in Western Shanghai at sunrise, among ancient limestone and huge trees, watching old men practice calligraphy with brush and water on the pavement, old women practicing tai chi, while the hoards of grand and great grand children go screaming though the park, a cornucopia of sights, sounds, smells, and cultural observations.
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