I attended a birthday party last week-end and a very experienced traveller remarked about his recent trip on Air Canada a few days after my Air Canada trip. I remarked in Basic Economy my knees were jammed up against the seat ahead of me and God help me when the passenger tilted his seat. LastContinue reading “RKS Travel: Air Canada’s Cruelty to “Basic Economy” Passengers: Call in Animal Protection!”
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“Travels to a Different Time” : 10August2004: Around Charlevoix in Quebec
I don’t see much point in spending $60 for breakfast for the three of us so Andrew and I had a short drive into Point au Pic and found a bakery and purchased some Brioche so breakfast back at the Manoir Richelieu of just baked Brioche and some pear juice along with in room coffee.Continue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 10August2004: Around Charlevoix in Quebec”
RKS Film: “Calendar Girls”: Cheerleaders That Never Gave Up? Wisdom Amongst the Cheese?
“Calendar Girls” is a documentary about the Calendar Girls of Southwest Florida a group of 30 or so senior ladies that perform cheesy dance numbers in bingo halls, seniors’ residences and local parades raising money for charities. They give between 100-130 performances each year. What they lack in professionalism they compensate for in spirit. OldContinue reading “RKS Film: “Calendar Girls”: Cheerleaders That Never Gave Up? Wisdom Amongst the Cheese?”
RKS Wine: 2021 Plan de Dieu Côtes-du-Rhône Villages
The Plan de Dieu Côtes-du-Rhône Villages has rich aromas of hulled ripe strawberries, black cherry and bright spice buffed up by a tad of root beer. Tannins are moderate. The flavour is intense and rich perhaps too rich and power laden to be a good sipper. Loads of ripe strawberries which are at their peakContinue reading “RKS Wine: 2021 Plan de Dieu Côtes-du-Rhône Villages”
RKS Wine: leaning post’s The Fifty Chardonnay from Niagara: A Goldie Hawn Wine?
At 540 cases produced this concrete aged Chardonnay can be considered a micro cuvée. The wine is platinum coloured which may be indicative this is no big Chardonnay. On the nose somewhat of a classic Chardonnay bouquet with lots of apple, pear, guava, slate and just a bit of pineapple and ginger. A gentle ChardonnayContinue reading “RKS Wine: leaning post’s The Fifty Chardonnay from Niagara: A Goldie Hawn Wine?”
RKS Film: “Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes”
If you are a ska or reggae aficionado “Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes” is a mandatory film and for the rest of us interested in the history of music it is almost as compelling. And if you a history buff the documentary is in many ways a history of Jamaica from the 1960’s toContinue reading “RKS Film: “Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes””
“Virus # 26” : Director’s Cut : “Virus # 26” “Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs: the Medicos”
Thank goodness the medicos did not run the show during COVID times. You must remember their whole moral fabric is to “save lives” or was it to peddle worthless vaccines kissed by “medical respectability”? The medicos were used by the politicos to terrify the population in an effort to stem the tide of COVID casesContinue reading ““Virus # 26” : Director’s Cut : “Virus # 26” “Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs: the Medicos””
RKS Wine: A Clownish Wine: No Disrespect Meant!
I see a wine with a “Fitou” appellation please forgive me but I think of a clown. I am not sure why? Perhaps it is my Montreal background where I recall a Quebecois clown Bobino that had a popular television show years ago. But Fitou has no similarity to “Bobino”. Should I report this toContinue reading “RKS Wine: A Clownish Wine: No Disrespect Meant!”
RKS Film: “Come Back Anytime”: Get Me to Tokyo Quick!
Welcome to the world of ramen noodle master Masamoto Ueda owner and self-taught ramen master operating out of a tiny restaurant in Tokyo named Bizentei. No big flashy décor but instead a rather homey restaurant that seats 30 at most. And Ueda is referred to by most of his customers as “Master”. He is selfContinue reading “RKS Film: “Come Back Anytime”: Get Me to Tokyo Quick!”
RKS Quote of the Day: “Nine Perfect Strangers”
“That particular group of solidly married friends was meant to envy her, or they’d pretend to envy her anyway, for all those years, but it seemed that being childless and single in your thirties was very different from being childless and single in your fifties. No longer glamorous. Now kind of tragic.” Liane Moriarty “Continue reading “RKS Quote of the Day: “Nine Perfect Strangers””
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