Posted in Food, History, Politics, Society and Culture, Travel, tagged viking.beer, viking.British and Irish history, viking.desserts, viking.Japan, viking.luxury, viking.Myanmar, viking.Myanmar food, viking.nature and geology, viking.religion on Sunday, December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When they beat on a broken guitar
And on the streets, they reek of tropical charms
The embassies lie in hideous shards
Where tourists snore and decay
When they dance in a reptile blaze
You wear a mask, an equatorial haze
Into the past, a colonial maze
Where there’s no more confetti to throw
Beck, “Tropicalia”
“Let’s send him to Burma!” Okay, where is [...]
Posted in Drink, Food, History, Travel, tagged viking.desserts, viking.meibutsu, viking.non-alcoholic drinks, viking.street food and markets, viking.Taiwan, viking.Taiwan food, viking.weird food on Saturday, November 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
When I went to Thailand last year, I stayed with my friend Alexander and his surprisingly non-French boyfriend Bordeaux. The pair showed me a wonderful time in and around Bangkok, and it was fitting that I experienced Thailand for the first time with their guidance because it was their blogs that made me want to [...]
Posted in History, Travel, tagged viking.British and Irish history, viking.England, viking.kitsch and kawaii, viking.museums and display, viking.UK, viking.vikings on Sunday, October 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It seems to me that the English in general have a very high tolerance strange affinity for camp and kitsch. The four-meter-tall statue of Freddie Mercury on Tottenham Court Road, the Charles Dickens theme park in Kent, and the endless pages of High School Musical 3 coverage in the free papers all seem to suggest [...]
Posted in History, Society and Culture, Travel, tagged viking.site news, viking.vikings on Friday, September 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am a viking. The title, and indeed the blog itself, worked so well in Japan; I chose those words to try to express the thrill of exploring, consuming, and being the Other in bountiful new territory. But now I am moving to England; does the title fit? Will the blog work?
I, for one, [...]
