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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]