ENJOY A DANISH BOLLE MED OST
THIS MAY SEEM LIKE TAKING kalsarikännit, Slow TV, and other Nordic eccentricities to yet another extreme, but Amelia Nierenberg describes “It’s Sliced Cheese on Bread. And It’s Rocking Copenhagen’s World,” … Continue reading
“PUPPY LOVE—A FINNISH NATIONAL PHENOMENON PART 2
YESTERDAY WE CITED THE GUARDIAN’S REPORT on “Puppy Love: Finnish 24-Hour Newborn Pup Livestream Is TV Smash Hit.” Today in Part 2, The New York Times shares a review that’s … Continue reading
“PUPPY LOVE”—A FINNISH NATIONAL PHENOMENON PART 1
FINLAND IS RECOGNIZED AS THE HAPPIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. And reflecting this is Miranda Bryant’s “Puppy Love: Finnish 24-Hour Newborn Pup Livestream Is TV Smash Hit,” The Guardian, October … Continue reading
ENGLISH AND FRENCH 1902—WITH ATTITUDE!
AMONG MY TRAVEL GUIDES IS THIS HANDY LITTLE (4 3/4” X 5 1/4”) VOLUME titled Manual of Conversation With Models of Letters for the Use of Travellers and Students, English … Continue reading
RAFFLES—A SINGAPORE HOTEL, A HOLMES INVERSION PART 1
THIS CONNECT-THE-DOTS TALE IN PARTS 1 AND 2 today and tomorrow begins with yet another Raffles: Stamford Raffles is described by Wikipedia as “a British colonial official who served as … Continue reading
THE JAPANESE HAVE A WORD FOR IT PART 2
YESTERDAY, REBEKAH BRANDES’ NICE NEWS article got us started with Japanese words and phrases enriching our lives. Perhaps still in need of intellectual and emotion reparation, we continue today in … Continue reading
THE JAPANESE HAVE A WORD FOR IT PART 1
I ENJOY READING NICE NEWS—a website that, as its name describes, celebrates the world’s joys. For example, Nice News’ Rebekah Brandes offers “From Ikigai to Wabi-Sabi: 8 Japanese Philosophies for … Continue reading
A FINE PRADERA BRUNCH
THE SPANISH “PRADERA” IS A MEADOW, A PRARIE, A GRASSLAND. The English/American “brunch” is a portmanteau word of breakfast/lunch. And, specifically, SoCal’s Pradera restaurants (there are two, the original in … Continue reading
A QUITE PROPER MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE—1923 PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE EMBARKED ON A CRUISE around the Mediterranean Sea with Rolland Jenkins’ 1923 guidebook. Today, we continue in Part 2, first with the “sparkling city of Algiers.” Algiers. “The … Continue reading
A QUITE PROPER MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE—1923 PART 1
THEY CERTAINLY KNEW HOW TO TRAVEL BACK THEN. And to write about it as well: Rolland Jenkins noted cogently, “In looking over the material available in the form of what … Continue reading
