A sleepless New Year’s Eve night led me to the BBC’s Radio 4 where the World News was describing scenes at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Over one million people were there, it said. My mind flew back to my own New Year’s Eve on that beach, back in the late eighties or early…
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The Bamboo Forest of Kyoto
If you’ve seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon you will have gained some idea of what this place is about: I found it totally magical.
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