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Up, up and away with Sharon at sharonswalkabout.com

Up, up, and away

Several years ago, Akira, my Son-in-law, bought equipment to take on the sport of Paramotoring, also known as Powered Paragliding. The term was used by Englishman Mike Byrne in 1980 and became popular in France around 1986 when La Mouette began adapting power to the new paraglider wings. I did not know much about the […]

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Jennie's Original Pierogies Staff with Sharon at sharonswalkabout.com

Jennie’s Homemade Pierogies

At one time this area had a very large population of Polish immigrants. Driving around the neighborhood streets, you could see quite a few Polish names of businesses. At the grocery store, there was a bin of frozen pasties which I later learned were meat pies. Also on a shelf, there were several different size

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Flesh Food in Japan with Sharon at sharonswalkabout.com

Grocery Shopping Anyone?

Small neighborhood grocery stores are quite common in Japan.  Driving by this well-stocked store, we could not help but have a little giggle over the misspelling of “flesh” versus “fresh”. Nevertheless, look at the lovely apples and oranges!

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