Category: events
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Rebel Heart tour, Madonna in Tokyo
Part of the reason we went to Japan in February is this woman. She is not getting younger and we reckoned if we do not grab a chance to see her perform live on stage soon, she might retire. Hope she will be around longer than David and Prince. We are not die-hard fans but enjoyed…
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Sunday Anti-War Protests in Harajuku 原宿, Tokyo
On Valentine’s day February 14, Sunday, we encountered a protest in Tokyo. Harajuku is the geographic area spreading from Harajuku JR Station south along Omotesando down to Meiji-dori. It is better known internationlly as a center of youth fashion – especially Takeshita dori (竹下通り). After we crossed Meiji-dori, Sue and IT stopped at a vintage clothes…
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86th International Motor Show, Geneva, 2016
The 86th International Motor Show was held in Geneva from March 9 to 19 this year. Since we recently changed our car, the dealer sent us a set of tickets to the show and invited us to the brand’s pavilion for a snack and drinks and check out the latest models. It was impossible to…
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Our trips 2015, part 2
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! Continuing with our first post of 2016, this post takes a look back at the places we visited in the first half of last year. In 2015, there were 94 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 650 posts. The post that had the highest number of views…
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Our trips 2015, part 1
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! This is our first post of 2016. It is almost a tradition of this blog – the first post takes a look back at some of the places we visited last year. Click on links, where provided to read more about the places of interest. There are usually a series…
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World Expo 2015, Milano – part 2
Continuing with our tour of Expo 2015 in Milano … part 1 is here One of the pavilion that we wanted to see (as we have heard much praise about it) was the Padiglione Giaponne (Japanese Pavilion). But it was so popular that when we found the tail of a long line coiled around…