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Of Grits Half Kissed
https://youtu.be/cyQ4vkTwc4E After my week in Rome, my next destination was Florence, a city that for my money begins and ends with A Room With A View, my favorite movie of all time. (And a pretty good book, too, though the … Continue reading
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Tagged A Room With A View, Annunciation, Arno, Da Vinci, Dante, Enrico Fermi, Fernando, flood, Florence, Freddie Honeychurch, Hotel Argentina, Italy, Lindt chocolate, Neil Gaiman, Pensione Bertolini, Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, Piazzale Michelangelo, Ponte Vecchio, PrettyFlyForAWiFi, Santa Croce, St Hole In The Wall, Tennent's Super Strong Lager, The Lion's Fountain Irish Pub, The Orgy On The Mount, train, Trigger Warning
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It’s Not Paranoia If Entropy Is Trying To Kill You
So, on Saturday, January 30th, I departed New York’s JFK for Rome. Getting to JFK was pretty easy, as usual. I’ve done the Bedford Hills to JFK transit so often over the years that I have the rail lines and … Continue reading
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Tagged British Airways, Heathrow, JFK, Lucifer, Massamiliano, Max, Rome, Royal Tea, train, Trastavere
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Tour de Fail – Kyoto, part 2
Monday, August 3rd So, after 2 museums and two temples and a lot of walking and sweating on Sunday, I just relaxed at home on Monday and read. I’d include a picture of the place and the book, but the … Continue reading
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Tagged baby wrestling, Big Buddha, Deer Park, Fallout, Fallout Shelter, Fushimi-Inari Shrine, geisha, ghost, Gion District, Heian Shrine, Ingress, International Manga Museum, Kasuga Shrine, Kazunari, Kenta, Kinkakuji Temple, Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, Kyoto National Museum, Matsui Shuzo Brewery, monster, museum, Nara, Nijo Castle, Pokemon, sake, Sanju-Sangendo Hall, sushi, swastika, Todaiji Temple, Tofukuji Temple, Torii, train, tshirt, yokai
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Unused footage
I strongly suspect the title of this blog entry will serve nicely as my epitaph, but it’s intended to describe how much of “today”, Sunday, June 14th, went. Still, do make a note of it, so that when it’s time … Continue reading
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Tagged Genshiken, Norwegian train, Slow TV, TED, train, Yosakoi Soren Festival
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The First Day in Sapporo
So, in my last post it was Wednesday, June 10th, and I’d arrived at Sapporo Station in downtown Sapporo, by train from the airport about 1/2 an hour southeast. I suppose that this would be a good point to give … Continue reading
Corona
I loathe Corona. Not, mind you, as much as I loathe many other beers in the Anheuser-Busch family, the near-monopoly crap-beer megacorp that co-owns it and is guilty of all of the usual predatory and monopolistic practices that characterize all … Continue reading
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Tagged B2, B2 Black, Coffee Monster, Corona, Country Road, John Denver, Phun Phin, Princess Park Hotel, Robin, Surat Thani, taxi, Tesco, train
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A Room With A View of Doi Suthep. Sometimes.
After a week of being in that mostly very nice budget hotel box in the Old City, dealing with smoke and smog induced headaches and feeling stir crazy, the week since then has been little short of bliss. It has … Continue reading
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Tagged Airbnb, Assist Thai Visa, B2, B2 Black, Cheers, Clariel, CMStay, Coffee Monster, Garth Nix, Khanom, Koh Samui, Princess Park Hotel, Rhys, sleeper, sleeper train, smoke, Surat Thani, The Burning Season, train
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