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 […]

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 […]

It’s been sweaty weather here this week and some people are starting to suffer. Roberto, the nice and occasionally sweary german in my class, more or less wilted during a lecture on Thursday. Various Japanese folk panted around college using their only available breath to breathe “atsui!” (hot!) at each other and receive nods of […]

The ladies brought me to a famous rose garden in Nara yesterday.

It was very beautiful..

We had iced rose coffee.

Then looked at some more roses..

We’re already starting to realise how little time we have left in Japan. Giita booked her flights this week - she’s flying to Edinburgh with Ã?ris on August 1st and then on to Iceland for a little over 2 weeks. I’m leaving two weeks later, after a 5 day trip to Nagano with the Rock […]