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RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)14October2025: On the Rails Again in Malaysia

14October2025: On the Rails Again in Malaysia Let’s alter that Willie Nelson song a bit and hum “On the Rails Again”. The seasoned jungle explorers reeking of danger and DEET having seen terrifying piles of elephant dung on their jungle trek (actually a ride on a Jeep) return to the safety of the Eastern &Continue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)14October2025: On the Rails Again in Malaysia”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 12October2025:  Passing on the 250 Acre Gardens by the Bay and the Garden Rhapsody Light and Musical Show

Singapore 12October2025:  Passing on the 250 Acre Gardens by the Bay and the Garden Rhapsody Light and Musical Show I am not enthused by the evening activity of visiting the 250-acre Gardens by the Bay with The Cloud Forest, Supertree Observatory, Flower Dome and OCBC Skyway followed by the garden Rhapsody Light and Musical ShowContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 12October2025:  Passing on the 250 Acre Gardens by the Bay and the Garden Rhapsody Light and Musical Show”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 11October2025: Singapore Panoramic Tour: Is Singapore Soulless?

Singapore 11October2025: Singapore Panoramic Tour: Is Singapore Soulless? “Singapore Panoramic Tour” sounds a bit easy peasy just what the doctor ordered for haggard jet laggers. On a luxury coach (no WC facilities) at 09:15. First stop Merlion Park at the Esplanade Bridge. Right behind us one views the Singapore skyline with innumerable skyscrapers many withContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 11October2025: Singapore Panoramic Tour: Is Singapore Soulless?”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

THE TOUR DIRECTOR: The glue that binds the group together Your tour will have a tour director travelling with you for your entire tour present when you arrive up to your departure and handle all administrative details in between. Part drill sergeant. Part parental figure. Part diplomat. Caregiver. Interpreter. Friend. Part object of blame. TheContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 CANADIAN WINE: Stag’s Hollow 2022 Renaissance Merlot

Stag’s Hollow Winery celebrates 30 years of British Columbia winemaking in 2025. To commemorate this milestone anniversary, the winery has reimagined its Renaissance Merlot 2022 label to feature three exclusive ‘Art Series’ labels, each capturing the essence of the Stag’s Hollow estate in Okanagan Falls, BC. The depiction on each label, created by local artistsContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN WINE: Stag’s Hollow 2022 Renaissance Merlot”

RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Stag’s Hollow 2022 Syrah from Beautiful British Columbia: An Affordable Canadian Côte-Rôtie????

The standard slogan, now gradually disappearing, on British Columbia license plates was “Beautiful British Columbia”. What is not disappearing on the shelves of state monopoly liquor distributor in the province of Ontario (LCBO) are the wines of British Columbia because there were so few of them anyways so not much to disappear. As American winesContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Stag’s Hollow 2022 Syrah from Beautiful British Columbia: An Affordable Canadian Côte-Rôtie????”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

GETTING THERE Not brimming with excitement facing a 15 ½ hour flight from Toronto to Hong Kong with a two-hour layover waiting for a 3 ½ hour flight to Singapore. The outboard flight and connecting flights to Singapore on Cathay Pacific one of the three best airlines in world as awarded in by Skytrax inContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: Three Legends: Bateman, Bristol and a Land Rover “Grizzly Torque”

The documentary is both an adventure and biography of legendary Canadian wildlife artist Robert Bateman and Bristol Foster photographer, cinematographer and environmental activist and of course their Land Rover “Grizzly Torque” (GT) that between May 1957 and November 1958 transported them on a 50,000-mile adventure travelling through 19 countries including Ghana, Congo, Uganda, Keyna, India,Continue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: Three Legends: Bateman, Bristol and a Land Rover “Grizzly Torque””

RKS 2025 Film: “Under the Volcano”: Metaphorical Streams of Lava!

Roma (Roman Lutskyi), his wife Nastia (Anastasiia Karpenko) and Roma’s children the phone obsessed Sofia (Sofia Berezovska) and the cartoon loving Fedir (Fedir Pugachov) are Ukrainians spending a vacation on one of the Canary Islands, Tenerife. Fun and good times and inevitably the departure back to Kiev. But the fun and games abruptly end withContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Under the Volcano”: Metaphorical Streams of Lava!”

RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: Cooper’s Hawk Talon Red

I have been a fan of wines from the Lake Erie North Shore (LENS) appellation in Ontario for quite some time. I go back so far I remember the first wine from Cooper’s Hawk I reviewed was a Chardonnay and these guys were so new it wasn’t even VQA. Then fame crept up on LENSContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: Cooper’s Hawk Talon Red”