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Hello. Final post and it’s been a while coming. We only got the internet re-connected today and are slowly getting reacquainted with Dublin and our wee house. It’s nice being back and lovely seeing family and pals. After writing the previous post, most of my time was taken up with cleaning, paying bills, getting phones […]
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It’s 10 o’clock on Sunday evening and I’m just on the way home from seeing Kyoto Sanga play out a fairly dour 1-1 draw for Cormac and my last Sanga match (for a while, at least). The Sanga goal was a comedy moment as the whole other team were on the sidelines for some water leaving […]
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Hola. So Giita and Iris jetted off to Scotland on August 1st and on to Iceland two days later. They were due to go to a summer house today to laze about! After they went off, Colin (who was visiting) and Cormac and I wandered about a bit before Colin went for his train, then […]
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Hola. Ã?ris and Giita are here, both getting themselves ready for tomorrow’s early departure to the airport to fly to Scotland, then on to Iceland on the 3rd. Since she’s taking her computer, I thought I’d do a quick blog! This week has been loads of goodbyes. We had a lunch with Rune in a […]
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The real Summer has arrived to Kyoto. It reached the early 30s in May, but it’s warmer now. 38 degrees on Tuesday. Along with the heat, there’s the early morning deafening insect noise that starts at 6am or so, sweaty looking Japanese people walking around repeatedly saying ‘HOT!’ to each other (and little else) and […]
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Hola. It’s the morning of my second last day of college in Japan. Today we’ll be watching a Studio Ghibli film in one class and then giving speeches in the other. Mine is predictably about Rock action. It’s my last vaguely important thing to do, since tomorrow’s classes look like being fairly slack affairs. Then, […]
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We’re just back from Nagoya where we saw: a robot museum (or at least it’s shop, home of Robo Kitty as pictured above), a man walking through the train station wearing only a t-shirt and no trousers or underwear, a man passed out in his pyjamas in the ‘entertainment’ (red light) district and loads of […]
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After last weekend’s bicycle hassles, I went to talk to our landlord who has decided we’re all pals again and everything’s fine. This may have something to do with me agreeing to pay him an extra ï¿¥9,000 to cover the ‘cost of water for our visitors’. Hmm. Anyway, glad to have that sorted. This week […]
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There’s been some bicycle hassles recently. We’ve noticed that Japanese people love moving bikes when nobody’s looking. This has happened a few times from our landlordly-appointed spot recently. A note was left on them one day, I then parked my bike in the landlord’s new area where other people from our building seemed to be […]
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Hola. I spent an hour writing this post earlier. Then the browser crashed. Lousy Firefox. Giita’s mac is a temperamental thing. One thing I’m looking forward to when I get home is being back to a PC. I know where things stand with those. So, having wasted most of the last of the sunlight on […]