Monday, 13 Apr 2009 | Views [439]
For this trip I’m consulting Fodor’s, and National Geographic, instead of the usual Rough Guides and Lonely Planet. And to get into the mood for Japan I opened Kurosawa’s Something Like an Autobiography , and went up to page twenty-five today. He ... Read more >
Tags: japan, kurosawa
Sunday, 12 Apr 2009 | Views [674]
It isn't so long ago that I went to Istanbul, and although—to enhance my experience—I read Orhan Pamuk ahead of my departure and Pierre Loti while in Istanbul, the memories of the time spent there are fading, leaving behind static images of this ... Read more >
Tags: istanbul, japan, kyoto, tokyo
