("Sean is batty as a loon and is prone to taking extraordinary risks in foreign towns," the late Hunter S. Thompson, who knew something about recklessness, wrote).
Commissioned as part of a new town programme initiated by Huang Ju, former secretary of the Shanghai communist party, it was designed by the international engineering practice WS Atkins, along with eight other themed foreign towns on the fringe of Shanghai.
But Baba had a taste for stronger substances, and, even in a foreign town, he knew where to look.
He died of wounds in a foreign town and passed out of sight as Sergeant Harden, 105th Infantry.
IN 1903 Major Evans Gordon, the MP for Stepney in east London, wrote that "east of Aldgate one walks into a foreign town".
If nothing else, Mr. Guerin has neatly captured the sweet, erotic alienation of being a single man at his leisure in a foreign town, dazzled by the passing procession of local beauties.
It was not till the late 19th century that a serious movement arose against the "influx" of new immigrants, particularly Jews arriving in the East End of London from eastern Europe: "East of Aldgate one walks into a foreign town," said a Tory MP for Stepney.
You can wake up in any foreign town and wander sleepily down the stairs of your hotel, only to find that breakfast means a coffee and a cigarette or, even worse, some underloved pastries or reheated powdered eggs; northern Albania is in the Jim Jarmusch camp, and Equatorial Guinea is big on the lukewarm fishcakes.
I did not know what to do in that foreign town.
Volunteers reach Syrian communities For Syrian families who have lived through conflict and displacement, arriving in a foreign town can be overwhelming.
Others, however, offer a genuinely stunning vantage over foreign beach towns and romantic cities from the likes of Spain, Portugal, Argentina, and more. .
