Category Archives: Travel
Kagurazaka – Dear Father/Hakei, Chichiue-Sama
Category Reviews, Travel, TV Dramas
Hakei, Chichiue-Sama / Dear Father TV Series broadcast on Fuji-TV from January 11 to March 22, 2007 now available on an All Regions DVD – 3 Discs – 11 Episodes Kagurazaka is an intriguing word. I mean it has 4 A’s, a K, and a Z. It is made up with 5 vowels and [...]
I’m Just Back From Japan
Category Reviews, Travel
While Yoko Matsugane was getting ‘up and down’ (or making pars), possibly on a golf course in her home prefecture of Ibaraki, I too was picking them up and putting them down in Japan. Okay, maybe not quite at the same time. Okay, she was playing golf and I was playing the role of tourist [...]
Ulla-Ulla : Cold Drink, Senhor?
Category Travel
Mah-chay, agua mineral-e, san-ouiches nat-chu-ral, coca, cerveja, ulla-ulla!! I had been daydreaming about the woman lying on the beach (photo right below) a few paces away from where I had requested my umbrella and beach blanket be positioned.
Cocktails on the Verandah
Category Movies, Travel
Late last month I found myself in Newport, RI, to be a spectator for the sailing competition. As we drove past one mansion after another on the elegant Bellevue Avenue or as we walked Newport’s treasured Cliffwalk (the next two images below), above the rocky coast, history and the present moments seemed to merge.
Travels – Paris and Elsewhere
Category Art, Movies, Travel
Fifty six years ago, in 1951, the classic musical film An American In Paris was released and it is still discussed even today. This film, directed by Vincent Minelli, won the Oscar for Best Picture. It is the story of an American G.I. who stayed in Paris after WWII to pursue his dreams of becoming [...]
Hiroko Sato in Shanghai
Category Reviews, Travel
Hiroko Sato In Shanghai Enterbrain Productions The Skinny: Imagine then what it would be like to accompany one of the most gorgeous of all of Japan’s Gravure Idols – Hiroko Sato – on a trip to Shanghai, the most lively, and trendy of any city in the P.R.C. There are no beaches or bikinis in [...]
Teamwork
Category Movies, Travel
It’s the dead of winter, and we’re just back indoors from one bone-numbingly cold day in Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin. The low was -8 degrees and the high was +1. I think the place is misnamed. Maybe it should be called Ice County. I’ll need to warm up, so this will have to wait [...]