Tag: Grant Montgomery
Keeping Dry in Lucerne
October 17, 2016 After the hike, we decided to visit Lucerne, and keep as dry as possible as it already looked like it was going to rain all day. We drove by Mt. Pilatus lined with cable cars zipping ... Read More
Hiking in the Swiss Alps
October 17, 2016 (Lucerne, Switzerland) I’m jumping out of chronological order with this post, but I felt like posting it today. The fog had rolled in and was completely covering Zurich by the t... Read More
Miniature Golfing and Other Adventures in the Black Forest
August 12 – 13, 2016 We woke up near noon, still a little jet-lagged from the Japan flight. J wanted to take me to a nearby town called Tübingen which she said also has a medieval town section ... Read More
Lost in Translation: Japanese Lotion Advertisement
Um . . . ew. From what I am able to discern, this is a skin-tightening lotion product. There is a music video that goes along with it, but they chose to use the image of the girl when she looked like ... Read More
Shopping Review: Stationery Shopping in Ginza
August 3, 2016 (Tokyo, Japan) We took a trip to the Ginza district, which is known as one of the most luxurious shopping areas in the world. M told us that a section of sidewalk outside one of the sto... Read More
On to Europe for Our Next Adventure
August 10 – 11, 2016 (Calw, Germany) That concludes our Japan trip as we bid farewell to the Orient. We landed in Frankfurt, Germany on Aug. 10th and took a lovely train ride south through the G... Read More
Food Review: Imahan Restaurant
August 8, 2016 Grant and I had the good fortune of being treated to one of the premier restaurants in Tokyo serving sukiyaki. Now to many, this word may conjure up images of hearing someone singing ... Read More
I’m Feeling “Folky” Today
August 6 – 7, 2016 Urayasu here we come! Or more specifically, Grant and I went and visited some pint-sized cousins of mine out in the “burbs”. We had the pleasure of going to a summer matsu... Read More