Wine Festivals

I'll introduce about the wine festival in Ikedacho, Hokkaido. It’s held every October on first Sunday. The admission fee is 3800 yen. I think it’s a little expensive, but the events are wonderful! You can eat as much as you like, and drink as much as you want. For example, there are beef sausages, hamburger, vegetables, sermon, and so on. I recommend you to eat barbecue of beef. You have to get it at once, because it’s very popular, so it will be eaten for 3 hours. Also, you can drink Tokachi wine. You can pour wine from casks. It’s very interesting. If you can’t drink alcohol, there is also grape juice. In addition, there are some interesting events. For example, contest of drinking wine and guessing it. And other contest is wine brewing. Only women can join the contest. Women who wear shoes which are made from woods press juice from grapes. The person who presses it the most will become winner. Like this there are some events, so I think you can enjoy the festival.

Next, I’ll introduce about the wine festivals in the world. There are a lot of wine festivals, for example, in Switzerland, France, , Hungary and so on. The most popular Swiss wine festival is Expovina. It is held on the 12 ships in Zurich. You can taste about 4000 kinds of wine there. Other festival is International Wine Festival in Budapest. Budapest is a capital city in Hungary. You can taste wine but also eat Hungarian foods and cheese. Then, Beaune wine festival. It’s held in France for three days. There are cheese, breads, and wine. In addition, you can enjoy parade. Like this, there are a lot of wine festivals around the world. If you are interested in it, please check it.

Movie

I’d like to introduce about “ENCHANTED”. I watched this movie with subtitles last year. I like this movie, so I’d talk about it. It’s a Disney movie. This movie is an American love-comedy and mixed drama and cartoon. It was released in 2007. The director is Kevin Lima. He concerned with “The Little Mermaid” “Beauty and the Beast” “Aladdin” and so on. The movie has a lot of Disney’s favorite scenes which everyone knows. I think it’s very interesting and one of good point of this movie.

Firstly, I’d introduce about the story of "ENCHANTED". The main character is Giselle. She lives in Andalasia, but she is banished from the romantic animated land to modern day Manhattan by the queen Narissa. Because her son prince Edward and Giselle tries to marry, so she wants to stop it. First, Giselle meets Robert and Morgan, when she is looking for a castle. Robert is a lower and Morgan is his daughter. He takes care of Giselle. She always begins to sing a song anytime she wants to sing. There is a gap between the real world and magical world. Also, Prince Edward comes to Manhattan to look for Giselle. Robert has a girlfriend Nancy, but he and Giselle are attracted to each other. Finally, the queen Narissa tries to have Giselle eat a poison apple, and Giselle eat it, but she is revived by Robert. Giselle and Robert fight with the queen Narissa, and they get a happy life in the real world. Incidentally, the price Edward and Nancy also get a happy life in the animated land. Therefore the story has a happy ending.

Amy Adams played the heroin Giselle. Patrick Dempsey played Robert. James Marsden played Prince Edward. Susan Sarandon played queen Narissa. Each of them appears favorite movies. Amy sings some songs in this movie, and they are musical number. Therefore, I think all songs are wonderful, and they make me happy. Some songs are nominated for some prize, for example, “That’s How You Know” and “Happy Working Song” and so on. They are just Disney’s songs, but “So Close” is only modern tune. I like all songs. In addition, CDs which have these songs are released, so you can check. Also, the DVD was released in this summer, so you can watch it by DVD. I think this movie is so romantic, and I can enjoy the musical number, so I recommend you to watch this movie and listen to music. If you are interested in this movie, please check!!

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