2021-12-15 21:45
It has only snowed properly a couple of times so far since I've been here but even so I have noticed an interesting peculiarity of Appikogen snow; it doesn't fall, as the word would imply, t… Read More
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2021-12-08 21:26
You get a lot of odd noises at night in the countryside, this was brought home to me last week, when I was roused from my slumber by a ear-splitting noise at 3.30am. It sounded like an old W… Read More
2021-12-02 21:22
So on Tuesday last week I got to leave the middle of nowhere to travel to the thriving metropolis that is Morioka, the reason being was that I had a date with a skid pan...Iwate and To… Read More
2021-11-20 00:46
Friday last week was the move up here so I have now been in the wilderness for just over a week and I can confirm it is... a bit out there.I came up here twice before moving, once for 3 days… Read More
2021-11-10 01:54
It's been a very odd feeling for the last few weeks as the apartment has slowly filled up with boxes of my crap that are going to Iwate. However this morning those boxes have been coll… Read More
2021-10-31 07:46
So the last time anything was posted in this here blog was my trip to Almaty in 2016, as you can no doubt see, dear reader, but the fact that this the post below. Anyway, I… Read More
2016-09-23 11:59
Big pink building Some important Kazakh chap FountainsArch Book Museum (I think) Old apartments The old Hotel Kazakhstan Sports hall inside Easy Rental bike hireNew shopping… Read More
2016-09-23 10:39
On my way home now, flying over wispy clouds and the steppe. Kazakhstan and Almaty are interesting places, though I can't claim to have seen much else of Kazakhstan than Almaty but there you… Read More
2016-09-18 01:19
Sitting on the train on the way to Narita and must admit to feeling slightly apprehensive about this whole affair. Not really sure what to expect from extended waits at Moscow airport (bored… Read More
2016-09-17 12:09
Fresh from one intercontinental trip this year, that one to France (as well you know), I'm off again tomorrow, this time to Almaty in Kazakhstan.Why, I hear you cry, are you off to central A… Read More
2016-08-13 02:19
More photos on my Flikr page, click the image above for the album. Will be added to as I get through processing all the shots Read More
2016-08-10 07:19
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2016-08-10 07:17
Sunday 31stA quiet day again for the weekend, so plenty of reading and lazing about. In the evening we went for dinner at L'Auberge des Isles in Montreuil-Bellay, lovely restaurant by the Th… Read More
2016-07-31 10:54
Saturday evening Arrived at Saumur, met by parental and taken to the new homestead, gite very nice, tres rustic in a one horse town that's lost its horse. Hail and well met with family and f… Read More
2016-07-25 08:57
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2016-07-25 06:48
So our last day in Paris so we thought we'd go high.We all slept pretty well for the first time, until around 6am, so that precluded an early start but then we've had enough of those. Breakf… Read More
2016-07-23 06:11
Up early but not quite as early as Thursday, which was a good sign. Breakfast again from the stall in the station, this time they got the order wrong, one more pain au chocolat, one too few… Read More
2016-07-22 03:44
Busy day at the coalface of a sightseeing. Woke up at 1am and all of us wake and compos mentis by 3. Various administrative tasks sorted and blog post written then headed out at 6, went firs… Read More
2016-07-21 02:40
Right, we are back in blogging mode as for the next couple of weeks we will be the Seine Riverview and the Loire Riverview as we holiday en France. Up at the crack on Wednesday Japan time as… Read More
2013-12-17 14:03
Tokyo Skytree, a set on Flickr.Day trip to Tokyo Skytree and Odaiba Read More
2013-08-08 03:29
Goodness me but that was a slog...22 1/2 hours, 55kms, 0-to-3,718m, very sore feet!Friday So Ryo and I met at Shinjuku and took various local trains to Numazu. On the train we met a 3 year o… Read More
2013-08-03 16:31
2013 Arakawa fireworks, a set on Flickr.An evening at the summer fireworks next to the Arakawa River Read More
2013-07-19 02:05
So tomorrow myself, my colleague Ryosuke and about 80 other foolish people will gather on Higashi Tagonoura beach in Kanagawa (or it might even be in Shizuoka) at 5.30am, scoop up a bottle f… Read More
2013-07-15 01:51
Well played to the England cricket team who drew first blood in the 2013 Ashes with a fine 14 run win in the first test. Of course at about 8pm (JST) we were all expecting something like a 1… Read More
2013-07-06 14:25
Lions winMore hereAnd hereStatsI almost seriously injured Marcus through over zealous celebrating, especially Sexton's and North's tries. But what the hell, he needs to know what it means… Read More
2013-05-31 11:23
Goodness me this blog is 10 years old, who'd have thought...Anyway it got me thinking the other day about stuff and time and whatnot and what has changed in the last 10 years, so...I now hav… Read More
2013-05-28 00:25
Mt Takao to Mt Jinba, a set on Flickr Read More
2013-05-16 08:21
A quick shout-out to 2 friends who are very soon to be cycling from Vancouver to Chile rasing money for charity as they go.Go Brendon & Emma, aka Bremma - hope you have super adventure!Y… Read More
2013-05-01 12:11
Fuji trip , a photo by tokyobogue on Flickr.So in the last few months the number of views of this one of my photos on Flickr has gone through the virtual roof and is now my most viewed snap… Read More
2013-04-21 05:37
So yesterday we did the Yamathon and jolly good fun it was too.What wasn't fun was getting up at 4.45 in the AM to be in Harajuku for 6.00, that was hard but I managed it. Surprisingly large… Read More
2013-04-18 09:08
This saturday i will be getting off my backside and try to give something back - I haven't done a great deal for charity, I must admit, though doing stuff for the Japan Scottish Highla… Read More
2013-04-15 13:15
Just to follow up on the past about Abenomics, on Friday, after we had been to the Japan Mint (which was very interesting unless you are a 7 year old boy, when it is apparently the most bori… Read More
2013-04-14 10:56
So you never know, I might get around to writing a few more posts as I can do this on the train :-) Read More
2013-04-10 06:54
Goodness me it’s been a whileI know I always write that, but there you go. I think I wrote at Christmas that it was about time for a proper post so getting it done at Easter isn’… Read More
2013-04-07 15:44
Yotsuya, a set on Flickr Read More
2013-04-04 06:46
April 2013, a set on Flickr Read More
2012-12-31 15:19
I promise a real post sometime soon, honest Read More
2012-12-19 14:57
Senju, a set on Flickr Read More
2012-10-22 13:30
La Festa 1000 (2012), a set on Flickr.Marcus and I took our annual pilgrimage to look at beautiful cars in Tokyo Read More
2012-10-21 08:08
Clouds, a photo by tokyobogue on Flickr Read More
2012-10-21 08:08
Travellers, a photo by tokyobogue on Flickr Read More
2012-08-02 13:30
Summer Odaiba, a set on Flickr.A wander around Odaiba, a gundam and a trip over and on Tokyo Bay in an amphibious bus Read More
2012-07-30 06:18
Strap in, it’s rant-o’clock…Japan has a bit of a neurotic attitude to tattoos. The history of tattooing goes back a long way, possibly 10,000 years to the Jomon period, bu… Read More
2012-07-26 12:14
Bon Festival, a set on Flickr.New post coming soon, in the meantime, here are some photos of a local festival Read More
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