I have been spending a few days with my family in California and you’ll never guess who else is here? It’s Joan Ishibashi, my “London agent” (!) who is here in California visiting her family. Joan has finalized all the arrangements regarding our Cleveland trip, and just today sent me the information on the Berghaus… Read More Guess who?
In the last two days, I have been on four separate airplane flights. Yesterday I flew to Lihue, Kaua’i and back for my biweekly organ lesson with Hank Curtis; and today I flew to Burbank via San Francisco to spend a few days with my family before joining Joan Ishibashi in Cleveland. It seems I… Read More Trinity, Trinity, Trinity!
Last April you may recall that my good friend, Joan Ishibashi and I drove out from London to the Cornish countryside to visit the village of Port Isaac, the setting of the television show, Doc Martin. Joan lived for fifteen years in Honolulu but moved to London seven years ago—I not only saw her in… Read More My London agent (LOL!)
I left Gloucester on Saturday morning via National Express bus and arrived at Heathrow Airport. My friend Joan Ishibashi met me at the Premier Inn and we took the local train into Ealing Broadway for one last dinner together. My itinerary Saturday morning was a British Airways flight to Oslo, Norway, then a transfer to… Read More Sunday morning in Bergen
I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming: There’s the lifeboat station, oh, and over there is where Doc Martin buys his fish. Look, there’s Mrs Tishell’s pharmacy and here’s the restaurant where Martin has lunch with his friend. Oh, and over there I see Doc Martin’s surgery! About two years ago,… Read More Portwenn: A dream come true
For the last part of our tour of Cornwall, we stopped at Jamaica Inn which was built as a coaching inn in 1750, and had an association with smuggling. It was the setting for Daphne du Maurier’s 1936 novel Jamaica Inn, which was made into the film Jamaica Inn in 1939 by Alfred Hitchcock. We… Read More Jamaica Inn, Padstow and Doyden Castle
About two years ago I started watching the television show, “Doc Martin,” and vowed that one day I would try to visit village of Port Isaac, which features prominently in the storylines of the grumpy Doc, his beautiful love interest, Louisa Glasson, and a colorful cast of characters. We left early Sunday morning, expecting to… Read More In love with Cornwall
It’s now 10:04 pm on Thursday London time and I have been awake since 2:30 am Wednesday Hawai’i time and I’m so excited that I have heard (and seen) the a cappella Choral group Voces8 live in Cadogan Hall. The large room was acoustically as dead as a doornail, requiring the group to be perfectly… Read More Effortless perfection
The term “bespoke” is not widely known in the U.S. — in fact the first time I heard the word was last summer when I was with my friend, Joan Ishibashi, former Hawaii resident who now lives in London. This week I had to use the word “bespoke” in a Google search, as in “bespoke… Read More Bespoke
I am so fortunate to be able to see my friends wherever they may be—in the calendar year 2018, I saw my friend Joan Ishibashi, formerly Executive Assistant of the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, on three different occasions and in three locations! She has lived in London since 2013, when she married Kantila Vaghela, Last… Read More Reunion in Camarillo