En el aeropuerto de Narita lo primero que me sorprendió fue que nada más bajar del avión (fuimos de los primeros) los pasillos, hasta llegar al control de pasaporte, estaban llenos de periodistas y cámaras de televisión. Alguien famoso llegaba en nuestro avión aunque nunca supe quien fue. Y eso que estuve viendo algunas noticias Read More »
We spent the day in Nagasaki to look at the 15,000 colourful laterns on display around the town for their annual winter festival. It`s centred in Chinatown`s bustling streets. It was raining most of the day but despite this stall holders were selling steamed buns and other delights to tempt passers by which made it Read More »
Beppu is famous for its onsen: mineral hot spring public baths. The town and surrounding area is full of vents spouting hot white clouds of steam from the geothermal outlets.
Our hostel has an onsite onsen which is lovely. You sit naked on a low wooden stool along with other (same sex) bathers, and give yourself Read More »
It was sad to leave India after only 6 weeks, so much more to see and do there, but our flights had been booked for a while and Japan was calling.
From Narita airport we headed into Tokyo on the cheap train into Ueno, where Alex had booked us into what the Lonely Planet apparently calls Read More »
Feeling like a Jetsons
Driving around Tokyo on the elevated ring roads reminded me of one of my favorite cartoon shows, the Jetsons. At about a twenty story building high, I was cruising at 70 km/h in my comfortable and confidence car. To my right, the view of the urban jungle landscape was whizzing by. When Read More »
Today was a really, and I mean really, slow day at work. The students are all in exams so I quite literally had NOTHING to do all day. I graded papers but you can only do that for so many hours before you want to stab the pen into your eyeballs instead.
Wound up heading Read More »
Finally…
Our friends in Toyama!! Andy and Yukko were wonderful enough to be our hosts and tourguides for a few days.
Andy took us on a tour of the sake factory he works in. We saw almost the entire process for making sake. We also got to sample the sake at many different stages….Mmmmmm.
One of our other Read More »
Today was a really, and I mean really, slow day at work. The students are all in exams so I quite literally had NOTHING to do all day. I graded papers but you can only do that for so many hours before you want to stab the pen into your eyeballs instead.
Wound up heading Read More »
I got up early to change my Airport shuttle pick-up time from 7:15am to 9:15am, because my dive gear bag is going to be picked up at the Hostel instead of at the airport as I thought it would be. I had to wait for reception to open in order to use the Internet to Read More »
I just got back into beadweaving and learned a few off-loom techniques this past week. But today my prize piece, a cute little mauve and gold ladder-stitch bracelet, suddenly snapped off my wrist, falling to the floor in a shower of sad little beads and I said to myself in a huff, “this 100-yen crap really Read More »
