Happy Valentine’s Day! Pier-ing across to Jersey We scheduled four sessions of sitting for today so first thing we headed out to the High Line, the re-purposed elevated spur of an old railway, now a 2.5 km park, for…
Helluva, used on Broadway, was changed to “wonderful” for the movie as Comden and Green’s lyric was too racy for Hollywood. New York is many spectacular and awe-inspiring things, but, truthfully, wonderful “honk honk” isn’t one of them. Still, where…
I have no idea what that title means but it’s the title of a garden SS went to this morning. Although it was our most beautiful day in Hong Kong, mostly blue sky, warm but not too hot, no humidity,…
Don’t let the pictures below fool you: It was gorgeous today. A fair bit of cloud, and only intermittent blue sky, but 24 degrees, a light breeze, zero humidity. It always gives me a thrill to be somewhere outside…
Our hotel is in Sheung Wan, the end of a subway line, a transitional mix of massage parlors with cutting edge galleries, cool shops and cafes and old school market stalls with remnants of a colonial past. It’s a wild…
Except we’re old men. (If you remember the Elvis song.) Most boring blog ever. Wake me up when there’s a Kalli Wag in site. At any rate, early rise on Friday, out of the hotel at seven, wheeled our baggage…
My transistor radio comes from far away And when it’s night over here over there it’s breaking day Buck Owens, Made in Japan Nourish twist…
We did not have the Healthy Breakfast at $34, nor the American Breakfast at $35. After a bit of lounging we went downstairs to Starbucks and had a reasonable facsimile for $6. Typhoon Nuri, which passed Japan, was supposed to…
That’s an Oscar Wilde quote. Still: Stephen got a very nice Christmas gift last year–two night’s at the Shangri-La Tokyo. So we packed up the bags and took the train two stops down the tracks then 28 floors up to…
When I arranged for our Kamakura guide we emailed quite a few times to sort out the itinerary and lunch. The tour is free but you pay for your guide’s lunch. She asked if we were vegetarian and what type…