When we first explored the Kobe 神戸市 area as possibly somewhere to live when we moved to Japan, Kitano-cho 北野町 immediately struck us as a very special sort of place.
Let’s Talk – Food & Drinks
In the “Let’s Talk” Question and Answer Item in the Smith’s School of English スミス英会話 curriculum, Question 8 asks: “Have you ever complained in a restaurant?” I have not yet had a student at my English school, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi, answer this in the affirmative, and I can’t remember complaining in a restaurant myself (at least […]
A Farewell to Rabbit – and some words on idiom
I have just finished reading the “Rabbit” tetralogy by John Updike. At over 1500 pages, this had been a marathon read. I had read the first of the four novels, Rabbit Run, as a young man, but had not read any other of his works since, before I tackled reading the whole set a little earlier […]
