Christmas in Fiji (with podcast)
Posted on December 15, 2007 - Filed Under Fiji, Audio, Holiday | Leave a Comment
Choirs, Coups and Long Canoes
Where do you go to find a spirited Christmas celebration? Give me Fiji any day. As the temperature teases the freezing tick on the thermometer and our two cats, Max and Moritz stalk the house looking for non-existent pools of light, my mind drifts on the trade winds to Fiji sunshine. […]
Shopping for Valentines: The Kama Sutra, One Bite at a Time
Posted on February 14, 2007 - Filed Under France, Holiday, Food & Wine, Misc. | Leave a Comment
It is a mashup of Animal Crackers, Cracker Jacks, Willie Wonka and, uh, sex.
What ever happened to the idea of fun candy? As a kid I used to sit around with my pals biting the heads off of giraffes and the butts off hippos, giggling self-indulgently at my cleverness. Likewise with Cracker Jacks: one […]
O Other Town of Bethlehem: Christmas on the Amazon
Posted on December 24, 2006 - Filed Under Holiday, Brazil, Places, Cruises, Photography, Video | Leave a Comment
A few years ago I flew from the real Bethlehem, in the Middle East, to Brazil’s Bethlehem, a town called Belem at the mouth of the Amazon where after some Christmas shopping at a funky, politically-incorrect market, I began a jungly yuletide cruise. Have a look at a Windows Media video and […]
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Looking for Santa in New York City
Posted on November 30, 2005 - Filed Under New York, Audio, Holiday | Leave a Comment
Looking for Santa in NYC
This is the night of the annual Christmas tree lighting ritual at
Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. This year the subject of our
attraction is a colossal 74 foot connifer harvested
in New Jersey, but nowhere near Tony Soprano’s neighborhood. My wife
and I literally cried in our beer last night […]
Thanksgiving in Paris - City of Lights Video
Posted on November 25, 2005 - Filed Under France, Audio, Holiday, Places, Video | Leave a Comment
Photo © 2004 Russell Johnson
City of Lights: A Paris Minute
Windows Media Video
HDTV (39MB) - STANDARD VIDEO
An American in Paris: Thanksgiving 2004
by Russell Johnson
The Story in Audio
MP3
The French are getting fat, so say reports, consuming and consumed by le fast food. You wouldn’t know it by looking at their scrawny turkeys. Dindon rings with onomonopoea. This […]
