“The entire Kiso Road is in the mountains.” This is the famous opening line of the novel Before the Dawn, written by Toson Shimazaki, who was born in Magome, Japan in 1872. The Kiso Road is part of the Nakasendo, an inland route connecting Kyoto and Tokyo.
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Have a Rollicking Good Time in Brandon, Manitoba?
Let’s face it. Brandon, Manitoba, the second largest city in the province, is not on most people’s vacation radar. It wasn’t on mine until I went to visit a friend who had just take a position at venerable Brandon University, one of the older and finer such institutions in central Canada.