H-to-the-J's

Author: Mike

  • More on Canada trip

    After Seattle I flew to Toronto and was met by a good friend who took me to her house where I stayed for a few days before setting off on a trip. Joanne and Paul made me very welcome, I stayed with them because Christina’s studio apartment is very small and doesn’t even have a…

  • Typhoon Sinlaku and Koh Lanta

    I am sitting at my computer while the wind and rain lash at the bedroom window, we are in the midst of a slow moving typhoon, the eye of which is forecast to arrive over Taipei this evening. It is a category 3 (Katrina was a 3) which may change to a 4. It is…

  • The last of Seattle

    Here are a few more pictures from Seattle.I had a wonderful visit, it was good to see everyone, my only regret was not being able to visit my other cousin who lives in the Chicago area. Another time!Christine with her parents taken in theirliving room Bernadette and Joseph with Patricia This is a view across…

  • This and that

    Saturday night Dave and I decided we would do something different as Dave was flying to Sweden the next day we wanted a quiet night. Looking in the English language paper I saw that “Jack”, one of the dancers from the dance production Dave and I were in last year, was performing in a modern…

  • Seattle area visit.

    My first stop on my North American odyssey was in Seattle, or to be more precise, a little place across Peugot sound from Seattle. My Aunt and Uncle have lived there since early in the 1990’s when they retired and moved from Chicargo. They have a wonderful view of Seattle across the water and sometimes…

  • Reflections on Airlines in NA and Asia

    Dave got worried I had not written about my North American trip and decided to do something for me, bless him!!! This is my version! At the end of April I finally got to use my first class ticket to NA that I had claimed,with points, almost a year previously when I thought I needed…

  • weddings and things

    Yesterday Dave and I attended a Chinese wedding, the third one for me and Dave’s fifth. Now I understand a little of what goes on (they are all in Chinese) I will try and describe the event. A lot of our friends have experienced their children’s weddings lately and thus this blog may be of…

  • While visiting Viet Nam, I was reading “The House on Dream Street” by an American author who spent a few years living in Ha noi , learning the language etc. in the early part of the ’90’s. The name of the St. was chosen as the title of Dana Sachs book because at the time…

  • We visited Viet Nam over Easter, I see Dave has already covered this trip but I shall add to it. We stayed in a fabulous hotel (Apparently George Bush stayed here during an APEC summit) in Ha Noi which only makes the contrast between the place we stayed and the street life all the more…

  • Working and learning.

    I have had a very interesting week! Dave went to Bangkok on Monday so the mouse played a little!!! Monday started normally with me going to Pilate’s, I keep slogging away at the weight/fitness but seem to be getting nowhere! Tuesday it had been arranged that Siow Ping would pick Sylvia and I up and…