The N7W crew got picked up early in the morning and driven to the temple’s new office building. There, I had the pleasure of first meeting Mr. Seihan Mori, Chief Abbot of Kiyomizu-Dera. I handed him, as a present, our 3D model postcard of the giant Buddha statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan that were destroyed in […]
Out of nowhere, and like a shooting star from the sky, on our very last morning in Moscow … an American (of all things!!) in Russia, David called me on my mobile, he cannot read Tia, our PR person’s, mobile number on the fax we sent late yesterday and was running late to their 6.15 […]
Our first meeting at RIAN seemed to be a good start in the week, with two young and very bright Russians, Evgenia and Vladimir, both handling international relations. They did their best, but even they could not cut through the bureaucracy of the Kremlin security in time (N7W had asked for permits to film at […]
To our great surprise, we were greeted by a most friendly, young Russian immigrations officer and went through immigration in only 10 minutes. Even the luggage was already on the belt by the time we got there … with one exception—one of my bags was missing! Maybe it had gotten lost in the jam of […]
Here is a very nice story for kids and animal lovers: Apparently, one of the Sultans was fed up with the stray animals in town and ordered that they be all rounded up and taken out of town. The citizens refused to obey and decided to take care of them. Even today, Istanbul’s stray dogs […]