On Sunday 19th July, we drove out into the countryside, to a village called Kimita, located near (and incorporated into) the town of Miyoshi, in Hiroshima Prefecture to view the sunflower fields. The sky was full of ominous clouds, but when we arrived there were some patches of blue and the [Read more…]
I came across this Schloss Koblenz Mosel Riesling in the Avanse supermarket in Furue (a suburb of Hiroshima) one Saturday afternoon earlier this month. It instantly struck a chord with me and brought back memories of camping beside the river Mosel with my school friend Patrick Bayly in the summer of [Read more…]
A couple of weeks ago, on of my students talked about a photographic exhibition that was being held at the Fukuya department store in Hachobori, in the centre of Hiroshima. The exhibition was celebrating the 100th birthday of Japan’s first female news photographer, Tsuneko Sasamoto. Intrigued by my student’s report [Read more…]
Eileen-chan and I spent four weeks in England in the summer. We went to see three shows in London: Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe, Sound of Music at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, Les Miserables at the Queen’s Theatre, (with my sister, Catherine). Then we spent nearly three [Read more…]
The Chess Championships are over. David Howell is the new British Chess Champion. I am already beginning to think about visiting my old stamping ground, Hastings at the end of the year, for the Hastings International Chess Congress … As for my final game in the Week 2 Afternoon Open, it was [Read more…]
I interrupt the orderly sequence of events to report two pieces of good news… Item 1: Eileen at Summer School I dropped Eileen off at Trinity School, Teignmouth, on Saturday afternoon for her two-week English course at the summer school run by International Projects. Five days later and no contact [Read more…]
Here are a couple of photos taken at Kansai International Airport and at Heathrow. Eileen-chan and I flew Finnair via Helsinki, but didn´t get around to taking any photos at Helsinki. On the flight from Helsinki to Heathrow we were sat behind Mrs Marc Williams and sons. As we came [Read more…]
I lived in Sandhurst, Kent, for nearly twelve years as a boy. Sandhurst is just a few miles from Sissinghurst, but in all those years my family and I never once visited Sissinghurst Castle [photo, left] and Gardens, which were created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West and her husband [Read more…]
At around 10 am we hopped onto the tram at Rakurakuen and pootled up to Miyajimaguchi. Yesterday it had poured with rain for most of the day, but today was a lovely bright day; even so, although the tram was crowded it was not as packed as I’d expected. Today [Read more…]
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