Category Archives: Culture Shock

Calm before the storm

Prior to 5 p.m. yesterday (Friday, November 29), my week was pretty much uneventful. But Fridays nights and Saturday mornings always provide opportunities for fun – and insanity. After my Marketing Responsible Tourism lesson yesterday, I met up with Satoshi to have dinner at a Greek restaurant near Hyde Park named Onion. Getting there was …

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Toto, we’re not in America anymore…

There comes a moment while traveling in another country, when it strikes you that you’re not in the country you flew from. For example, when I first went grocery shopping in Yokohama, it dawned on me that the bread was different. And on my first Sunday in Normandy, I was shocked everything was closed. Well, …

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