That is not a statue on the rock. Cranes really do stand around posing for watercolors in Japanese gardens.
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Old Fashioned Wedding
We stumbled on a couple in historical dress getting wedding pictures taken at Nijo Castle.
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I Can’t Commit
At the first annual Iceland Writers Retreat, I got to take two workshops from Pulitzer prize-winning writer Geraldine Brooks. For each workshop, she asked us to bring a short piece of writing to introduce ourselves. Because “travel” was the loose theme of the retreat, one of the options was to write 300 words about your favorite place. Here is mine. Read More