In depth recounting of my global wandering
In the interest of full disclosure, I cannot attest to the sequential accuracy of what I’ll term Hakone incidents two and three. I’m reasonably certain we spent two nights at the onsen ryokan and that incident two happened on the …
Tokyo and Nagano but not Tokyo and Nagano. The featured cities in this section about Japan are Tokyo and Nagano but it’s one that will not really be about either. Here’s a little background on how I came to Japan …
Ice, ice, baby and then not. It should come as no surprise to any of you who are at all familiar with geology – even if that comes only from reading my brief sketches of that complex science – that …
Four rounds for a third time. Nine cities had submitted bids to host the Olympics in 2012 but a technical evaluation reduced that number to five – London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, and Paris – before the voting actually began. …
The big picture. The year 1948 marked the return of the Olympic Games following a 12 year hiatus during World War II. These were known as the “Austerity Olympics” mainly because no new venues – including no Olympic Village – …