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Oku-iya-kazura-bashi

At this time in autumn twenty-five moons ago, we were bashing around on the “living husband-and-wife bridges” in Japan’s most secluded wilderness in a “wild monkey cart.” Needs explaining doesn’t it?

Filed Under: Attractions, Countries
Tagged With: Husband Bridge, Iya Valley, Japan, Kazurabashi bridges, Miyoshi, Otto no Has, Shikoku, The Wedded Bridges, Tsuma no Hashi, Wife Bridge

Poetry in Droplets

Quietly, our stockinged feet touch the cool, grey floor. Like a water droplet at the moment of landing, this concrete shell elongates. Pillarless. Seamless. Edgeless. There is no boundary between floor and ceiling. An inclusive space. For a single, solitary artwork. The silence is profound. There are no cameras. Talking is prohibited; even children’s voices […]

Filed Under: Attractions, Countries, Inspirations
Tagged With: Japan, Rei Naito, Ryue Nishizawa, Teshima, Teshima Art Museum

Nagoro’s Dolls of the Dead and Departed

“Eek-y-guy” What? “Eek-y-guy” is how you pronounce the Japanese word ikigai, which means having a sense of purpose. For the Japanese jubilado Tsukimi Ayano, making scarecrows is her ikigai.

Filed Under: Attractions, Countries
Tagged With: Japan, Scarecrow Village, Tsukimi Ayano

Sleeping in a Museum

“That’s good because I didn’t want to sleep in a yurt on the beach,” Ward said when I told him we’d booked rooms for he and Lynn and Magellan and I at Benesse House in Japan. Like Claudia and Jamie in the children’s book The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, we were going […]

Filed Under: Activities, Attractions, Countries, Eating, Inspirations, Restaurants, Sleeping
Tagged With: Art, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Benesse House, Benesse House Oval, Benesse House Park, Benesse Museum, Japan, Naoshima, Tadao Ando

100th Post

100 blogposts! “I thought we’d work at it for a year,” Magellan confessed when I asked him how long he initially expected we’d be at it, back when he announced his idea for Latitude65 to me over dinner in November 2014. Hmmm.

Filed Under: Activities, Attractions, Countries, Inspirations, Spain
Tagged With: Argentina, Bhutan, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Oman, Patagonia, Spain, US

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