Tag: Studio Ghibli

View From the Top

When I was in Qingdao, China with my daughter, we got lost a lot. Maybe because we navigated by the strange Ghibli-faced monsters that rose...

Do They Deliver?

I really have to wonder if Hayao Miyazaki spent time in Qingdao. So much of the old German Concession area of Qingdao looks like the...

Park Tower

This is the tourist tower at Xinhao Shan Park in the old part of Qingdao. From a distance, I think it looks like a Studio...

Ghibli Towers

This is Signal Hill Park (Xinhao Shan 信号山) in Qingdao. It is one of the ten important hill parks in Qingdao, and was very close...

What a pretty fire

In the Hayao Miyazaki movie Howl’s Moving Castle, Lauren Bacall voices the English version of the Witch of the Waste. Even as an animated old...