So i was walking accross London Bridge this morning…
Author: decoy
Relaxing in the heat
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If you look at her postion, she could be in a hammock, which might help explain why humans find them so comfortable. I haven’t managed to climb into our outdoor hammock yet this year, but cats clearly need no excuse for this sort of thing.
Japan
A fairly delayed blog post re Japan.
Had a great time seeing Jul and Mayumi, and seeing the temples, shrines, parks, towers, etc. Plenty to see in Tokyo and plenty of tasty food.
day 1: a vist to a noodle restuarant followed by a trip to see the blossom. then home to bed as we’d been up for 30 hrs or so.
day 2: the temple and market at Asakusa. it’d rained all day and unfortunately the temple was covered for to repairs
day 3: tokyo tower and nearby temple. lovely day and there seemed to be an event of sorts going on. met up with jul in the afternoon in a park near the fish market. tried traditional green tea – no so tasty. walked back via Ginza.
day 4: early start to get the the fish market for the best action. arrived to find it deserted. apparently drunken tourists had trashed the place and it was closed for a month. went to the folk museum instead. then to yoyogi park to the main buddhist temple and then to Hirajuku for people watching.
day 5: yokohama. pleasant walk along the harbour. got burnt.
day 6: a bento lunch with jul in the national gardens and a spot of reading
day 7: beer museum and park near the imperial palace. trip to bic camera – impressive
day 8: made gyoza under the instruction of Mayumi. Epic taste. Visit to Ghibli museum which was good fun.
day 9: a bit ill. stayed in.
day 10: Kamakura. very nice small village by the sea. loads of surfers.
day 11: bit more ill. visit to docs, followed by stroll round the east imperial palace gardens.
day 12: back to kamakura to see bamboo grove and giant buddha
day 13: hmm, not sure
day 14: chillout day, walked around gotanda area
day 14 + 1: flight cancelled. ate roast chicken in yet another park. taste! afternoon reading on jul’s roof
day 14 + 2: still no flights. visited the national building. good views and guided tour.
day 14 + 3: still no flights. small aquarium near gotanda. good dophin show, but tanks seemed a bit small:-(
day 15 + 4: early phone call from Virgin. panic! rush to airport and flight miraculously took off!
fixing the bibs at the local noodle soup emporium
tourists
rice n pork n egg n cheese
standard procedure
raw beef third stomach?
a tasty drink
baggy trousers
walking in gotanda
warning about resin shoes
a halfwit
a blossom
jul
blossom outside the imperial palace
jul
on the metro
a golden buddha
some drummers
a blossom
one of the parks
a bit more park
Han in the park
japanese maple
a samuari
egg
one of the massive ravens
nice and frothy
a tree
good design
the wandering samuari
a bit of road
this chap spotted me i think
yokohama at night
chestnut rice
tea
an ant
a pond
bento
posing by the robot from Laputa
exercise
a heron
a bamboo shoot
a bamboo forest
me and han
the giant buddha
more trees
the hotel from lost in translation
enjoying the blossom
ramen!
still going bald
taste!
raining in asakusa
bamboo shoots
selecting from the menu
fish
“expert” photographer
tasting a dumpling
a japanese wedding
a deserted fish market
fish at the top of landmark tower
the closest we got to seeing mt fuji
cool dudes
a slackwit tourist
creating gyoza
mmmm tasty
gyoza and dip
airing the toes
kamakura beach
fountain
I’ve also uploaded more photos to picasaweb.google.com/decoyotis/Japan
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Great medley of photos. I particularly like the municipal workers kitted out to go base jumping. Somehow, I find it hard to believe the same healthy and and taste conscious people eating those enormous bamboo shoots would also be queing up for raw horse meat or, perish the thought, raw tripe, even if it was, as promised, ‘freshly sliced’!
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dude, it really suits you
Happy birthday jul
Will bring pressies with us.
Mother’s day
Some photos from last night’s Mother’s Day meal. Tasty!
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Very tasty, indeed. That large piece of bark on the side of my plate was cinnamon, which we took home with us, to reuse … it was hard not to imagine a chunk that size having already made a number of previous appearances!
it was a bit strange. hardly anyone was batting a eyelid. commuters seem to have a zombie-like autopilot – it takes a lot to divert them.
found a pic someone else took on twitter. the swarve gentleman wtih the attache case below is me reaching for my phone…
twitpic.com/1r604r
Cor – the rat race at it’s zombiest!!
Looking at those legs, I would have said “man in pig mask”
That is squeally funny! As for the twit picture… looking good dude!
Is that your new suit?