Germany Japan 2023 Heading halfway home Hmm, my favorite, waking up before 7am so that I can drive to the airport, return the rental car, be able to check in my luggage, and have enough spare time such that
Germany Japan 2023 Leg Room?! I made it! But at what cost? 36 hours of flying, waiting a bunch, getting on a longer flight that decides to take the long way around, waiting a bunch more, getting on
Japan 2018 Leaving in blue skies … again The morning happened a little bit quicker this morning than anticipated after we read what the checkout time of our hotel was. We originally planned so that we can nicely stroll out of
Japan 2018 Cafés My last full day in Japan for this trip, and I have spent it very wisely. By spending most of it blankely staring out at the sea side. I'm sure people will be
Japan 2018 Tourist Town In further acts of jealousy in what I saw in my previous trip through Japan without my current travel companion, we went to have a look at the train museum in Kyoto. No
Japan 2018 City Skylines The last picture of the last two blog entries have both been off of the view from our accomodation. With a nicely large window, and a window sill to sit on, I made
Japan 2018 天の川 (Milky Way) After my travel companion got all jealous of the Nagoya science museum that I visited on my last trip, they decided that this is a must for this trip too. Which was great
Japan 2018 Rainbows in the park And today is another beautiful sunny day … someone appears to be trying to tease me by putting pouring rain on the day I want sun and putting beautiful warm sunshine on either side.
Japan 2018 Jumping Fish Well, after checking three different forecast sources, they all concluded that it was going to rain in the afternoon. Our existing outdoor plans therefore got cancelled, and we went for something which involved
Japan 2018 Showrooms In the past, it happened maybe once per trip that I would get myself caught on a busy train and be pushed around in the flow of people trying to get on or
Japan 2018 The constant roar of the engines Luckily, we seem to have been slightly against the flow in the morning. So while we were in a busy train, we also had a showcase view of the people pressed against the
Japan 2018 Into the warmth So, the day didn't exactly start warm. In fact, rather the opposite, given the amount of rain. At least, this gave me a great opportunity to use my brand new, shiny umbrella. I'm
Japan 2018 Welcome back Tokyo So, as predicted, sleep … kind of didn't happen. I mean, there were points where I had my eyes closed, and there were even points where I fell asleep. But considering that the unit
Japan 2018 Too long It's been too long since Washinoko has been allowed to see international action, but he's bright eyed and bushy tailed, eagerly awaiting the boarding call. As opposed to me who realises that I'm
Asia 2016 Long Way Home Survived! At the end of the last blog entry, we were just about to get onto our first overnight flight, and we’ve finally finished our second night of flying. After the fun
Asia 2016 Last Shopping Opportunity Our last day in Japan, and apparently this meant that we had to get all of the souvenir for the jealous people back home. Travelling in a slow zigzag pattern across Tokyo, we
Asia 2016 Japanese Super Advanced So we managed to get ourselves an invitation to the JT60SA fusion research reactor, which was highly informative (for the physics oriented of us). They are currently going through the process of upgrading
Asia 2016 Fuji-San (富士山) I keep on being surprised by just how busy some of these places are in the middle of winter. And while it was actually a very acceptable temperature (certainly compared to Korea), you
Asia 2016 Train Delivery After we have already emptied all our bank accounts, we went on an even more expensive shopping excursion. Synthesisers! The shop only had used stuff, and they still had stuff which went up
Asia 2016 New Toys So, in Shinjuku I was looking at things that I wanted, but they were all too expensive and not really necessary, and as such my bank account didn’t really suffer in the
Asia 2016 Pink and Hanging Upside Down Yikes, Japan has got a lot of pink. I thought that that colour would have limits, but Harajuku just seemed to have applied it by the bucket. The place is also littered in
Asia 2016 Shinjuku (新宿区) and Shibuya (渋谷区) So many memories are coming back about this place, just not any of the navigational skills. Trying to walk out of the correct end of Shinjuku station for example I got completely wrong.
Asia 2016 Nagoya (名古屋市) Some of us wanted to still take the last opportunity to see Kyoto before we bail, so they set themselves the adventures plan of getting up at 6:30. Yeah … um … if there’
Asia 2016 Washigeishanoko As the name suggests, some of us were brave enough to try out some of the more traditional Japanese clothing, a pretty popular thing to try considering the number of shops that do
Asia 2016 Kyoto (京都市) Lesson learnt today, not setting an alarm of any kind also means that there is no effort spent on trying to get up. So today started a little late. Whoops. Going up the