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Yesterday was the quarterfinal of the European championship between the Netherlands and Russia. Maastricht was very decorated for the occasion, and there were crowds of people who came in to watch at the many pubs and cafes. Sadly, the Dutch lost...

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Thursday night a friend and I went to a gala concert at Wigmore Hall (London) featuring Bryn Terfel - his voice is almost too big for the hall, but it was great fun. First half English songs, second half Schubert and some Celtic standards like Dan...

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]]> Sicily and Stockholm tag:vox.com,2008-06-08:asset-6a00c11414c40a5af500fae8c11060000b 2008-06-08T16:43:44Z 2008-06-08T16:43:44Z djchallmom http://djchallmom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom no time to write anything now, but I did put up lots of photos here.

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I took a long weekend in Bergen,was very lucky with the weather because apparently it rains 280 days a year there. The trip there was the long one via train, mountain train, and a fjord boat (lots more here): Bergen was great, very historic city...

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Fortuitously, the new Oslo Opera House, which is right on the fjord, opened a day before I arrived in Oslo! I went to see it today - there were lots of locals having a look too, even though there was no performance. I bought a ticket to the openin...

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Chris and I went to Kyoto for the weekend, a great trip, Here are the photos (a lot, especially because the cherry trees were beginning to bloom): Kyoto photos We even saw some geishas in a back street:

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Chris and I went to the Red Sox - Oakland As opener to the 2008 season at the Tokyo Dome last night! As I was sitting there, I realized that it was the 50th anniversary (!) of when I became a baseball fan in 1958, when the then NY Giants moved to ...

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My mainline train, the JR Chuo line, goes out west towards the mountains, and one of the stops is Takao, where you can change to the Keio line and go one stop to the terminus at Takaosanguchi, the gateway to a lovely National Park area with good d...

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This week a friend and I went to a Zen Buddhist Nunnery for lunch, although we did not see any nuns - in the middle of the week in winter they apparently do not do much business. It is called the Sanko In, and is in western Tokyo. They serve shoji...

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]]> Birthday at Hakone tag:vox.com,2008-03-02:asset-6a00c11414c40a5af500f48ce038cf0002 2008-03-02T02:50:02Z 2008-03-03T22:28:10Z djchallmom http://djchallmom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Some friends took me to the Hakone region yesterday for my birthday - about two hours outside of Tokyo, where you can see Mt Fuji and there is a lot to do - hiking, onsens, museums, etc. It was a great trip, we had a drive to see the view, visited...

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