globalism – REVerie

Osaka and Expo 2025

September 19, 2025September 18, 2025 by Alan Gyle

17 September 2025, a brief foray to Osaka from Kyoto On Wednesday, since everyone I met was talking about it, I made the short hop by train to Osaka and to the World fair, EXPO 2025! And why not, since it is only there till October, and what are plans for, if not to be … Read more

Thoughts on Hanamikoji Street

September 20, 2025September 17, 2025 by Alan Gyle

16-18 September, in Kyoto, Japan As Gold Hill in Shaftesbury is to England, so Hanamikoji Street in Kyoto is to Japan: idyllic, evocative and picture postcard ready, and both cobbled, though the former steeper and the latter with Geishas rather than the Hovis bread boy and his bicycle to the sound of Dvorak! (and if … Read more