Love Tokyo. Everyone knows about my affinity for Asia, Japan, and of course all cultures….Also visited Seoul after about 10 years. Somehow I managed to have most my pictures deleted. In the meantime, enjoy what I saw walking the streets of Seoul, Gangnam area.
SORAsound will be visiting associates in Zurich/Berne, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris.
Looking forward to seeing my dear friends from DaVinci Audio, and Hans Kortenbach of Musical Affairs. They both have new products that I will be checking out. There are also a couple of surprise visits and new products to announce.
Also looking forward to another great dinner at Fischers Fritz in Berlin and hunting new places and records. Berlin remains one of my favorite places to listen to some great music, be it a smoky jazz lounge where I cover my nose, or a stuffy concert hall. Last time I was there, I missed Nina Hagen by one day. I know some who may leave the country altogether to avoid her. As for me, I love her music and respect her talent much.
As always, my dear friends – it does not matter where I am. Always a phone call or an email away from you.
What an amazing experience.
I figured while we are in the area, we should take a trip to one of the islands. Fiji, Samoa, and the Cooks Island were all great options but I figured we would not necessarily make a special trip from Chicago to go to the Kingdom of Tonga. After SORA seeing some of the luxuries of NZ, and Australia, it made sense to go somewhere more “basic,” more “down to earth” if you will – but somewhere blessed with so much nature, beauty, and warm hearted people.
We stayed in one of the “best” resorts there but still close to the town so we’d enjoy the cultural activities and seeing the locals. Our room roughly cost us a couple of hundred dollars a night which is plenty there. But I tell you, in America, you would be paying less than $50 for that room. On the bright side, all night long we heard the sound of wild waves…what a beauty.
And God created New Zealand – Heaven on Earth.
Some have told me to try Alaska. They say it is as beautiful.
I went to school in Geneva years ago before you were born. The mountains here are at least as amazing. The drive from Queenstown to Milford sound was fabulous. The mirror lake was just amazing (see the pictures). And the flight back in such a small plane was magnificent. Will never take that flight again.
When I first started spending time in NZ, I told Nami and SORA to travel there as much as they can because NZ and Australia are so far away that we would not go back to the region. Guess what? The more I saw there, the more I said we would come back.
A few trips to New Zealand in the last few months. When I can, I try to visit a new city with Nami and SORA. Fulfilling a promise to myself to take SORA to a new country each year. New Zealand is an amazingly astonishingly many other complimentary adjectives country. I was lucky enough to have lived in Switzerland and gone to school there. Great nature there. But, New Zealand….this too, VOW.
