It’s a wet day today and we gave away our original idea of a harbour cruise, and instead decided to visit the Glover Gardens – an English style garden in the area of Nagasaki where early foreigners lived. We’ve stopped at this little local restaurant for lunch.
We enjoyed a nice meal with David last night at his hotel. The house wine came from DeBortoli, just up the road from where we live. Talk about taking coals to Newcastle.
We are staying at the La Fonda on the Plaza Hotel right in the centre of Old Santa Fe. I thought it might have been named after the actor Henry la Fonda but the word ‘fonda’ in Spanish simply means an ‘inn’ The site of this hotel has been the location of various inns since […]
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I’m with Miss Yoshiko Denogami who has been visiting us over the last few days. In Japan, she is more formally known as Denogami Sensei. (Sensei is a Japanese honorific and a word that is literally translated as “person born before another”. In general usage, it is used with proper form, after a person’s name […]
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We noticed from our hotel window yesterday, that people were setting up a market in the Shinkuku Gyoen Park behind the Tokyo Government Building, so we strolled over to see what might be on sale. As you would expect in a flea market, the little spaces marked out on the ground for individual stalls all […]
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