The Emperor of Japan, the Mikado, wants an execution, and Ko-Ko, the Lord high ... more
Executioner, is desperate for a victim. He agrees that his fiancee Yum-Yum can marry her true love, Nanki-Poo - but only for a month. In return, Nanki-Poo agrees to be executed, leaving Ko-Ko to reclaim Yum-Yum. When legal complications arise, Ko-Ko is forced to pretend that the execution has taken place. But Nanki-Poo turns out to be the Mikado's runaway son, and to save his neck, Ko-Ko finds himself blackmailed into marrying Nanki-Poo's own fiancee Katisha... allowing Nanki-Poo to marry Yum-Yum.
Advantages: Comfortable, small and friendly. Disadvantages: Not in the city centre if you prefer to be where the action is.
We stayed at Sullivans in March 2007, and will be returning in 2009. This is a 3 star hotel and is fairly typical of the standard. It is not an up-market affair, just a comfortable, friendly hotel with lovely views over the river and the city skyline.The location on Mounts Bay Road is convenient for both the city and the surrounding areas, being on the free Blue Cat bus route. The bus stop is right outside the hotel as is the one for the main bus services. Getting to Fremantle and the local beaches is very straightforward as the hotel is on a main road out of the city. Bicycles are available for free to explore, and the freeway is close by. The hotel has a small car park but there is also a chance of parking on the road nearby.
Sullivans is very popular with Australians as well as overseas visitors. The food is good and reasonable ...
Advantages: Low cal, really yummy Disadvantages: Price, very moreish!
Mikado
So what are they?
These are milk chocolate covered biscuit sticks, think of mini chop sticks covered in chocolate and you won't go far wrong! In fact on their packaging they state that they got their idea from the game pick up sticks, although I wouldn't want to play with my food!
They are around 10-12cms tall with the last 2cms not covered in chocolate so that you can hold onto these without getting sticky fingers. This is a great idea as it makes them ideal to give to the kids for a quick treat without them getting messy (unless like my 2 year old they like to hold the middle of the stick!).
How much are they?
I have seen these at various prices, I picked up a 3 pack in Morrisons for a special offer of £1, I have seen them in Tesco at full price for £1.99 for a 3 pack which I think is quite expensive seeing ...
Advantages: Gorgeous! Disadvantages: You won't want to put them down!
Around 4 years ago I was sitting at Charles de Gaulle airport in France, the plane was delayed and it was getting late, so my mum went to a shop in the airport and bought a box of these little biscuits Mikado, we'd never heard of them before, but we were quite impressed.
4 years later, I was walking around Sainsburys and spotted a big display of "new" biscuit Mikado, I was made up! I'd loved them in France, and at 49p for a packet I snapped them up and found they were exactly the same as the ones I had eaten in France.
The biscuits are long and thin, imagine the bicsuits in Choc Dip, much like that, but thinner and about 5 inches long, covered 3/4 of the way down in a tasty milk chocolate, there are about 30 in a regular sized pack, and you can also get small packs with around 15 biscuits in.
The individual biscuit is light ...
1. Overture 2. ACT 1 - If you want to know who we are 3. Gentleman, I pray you tell me; A wandering minstrel I 4. Our great Mikado 5. Young men despair 6. And have I journey'd for a month; Behold the Lord High Executioner; Taken from the county jail 7. As some day it may happen 8. Comes a train of little ladies 9. Three little maids from school 10. So please you, sir 11. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted? 12. I am so proud 13. With aspect stern; Your revels cease; The hour of gladness 14. ACT 2 - Braid the raven hair 15. The sun, whose rays are all ablaze 16. Brightly dawns our wedding day 17. Here's a how-de-do! 18. Miya sama, miya sama 19. From every kind of man 20. A more humane Mikado 21. The criminal cried 22. See how the Fates 23. The flowers that bloom in the spring 24. Alone, and yet alive; Hearts do not break! 25. On a tree by a river a little tom-tit (Tit Willow) 26. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast 27. For he's gone and married Yum-Yum. 28. Orchestral potpourri
Composer
Sir Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan (1842 - 1900)
Genre
Stage works
Date Written
1885
Conductor
Malcolm Sargent
Orchestra / Ensemble
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Orchestra / Ensemble
Pro Arte Orchestra
Main Performer
Elsie Morison (Soprano), Ian Wallace (Bass), Malcolm Sargent (Narrator), Monica Sinclair (Contralto (Female alto)), Owen Brannigan (Bass), Richard Lewis (Tenor), Sir Geraint Evans (Baritone)
Opera Part(s)
Elsie Morison (Yum-Yum), Ian Wallace (Pooh-Bah), Malcolm Sargent, Monica Sinclair (Katisha), Owen Brannigan (The Mikado), Richard Lewis (Nanki-Poo), Sir Geraint Evans (Ko-Ko)
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