Reading Time: < 1 minute Happy New Year 2017. This year, for the first time in 9 years, I was back in the UK for Xmas and New Year, and […] Read More
Category: japan
Reading Time: 2 minutes A few weeks ago we were down at the beach near Enoshima, where it was the closing hanabi of the Summer festival season – yes, […] Read More
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’d never been to a motorcycle show, so when the 43rd annual Tokyo Motorcycle Show rolled around this year, I decided I should take the […] Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes A slightly belated greeting into 2016, which we’ll be calling Heisei 28. It’s all about the reign of the Emperors, and is designed to confuse […] Read More
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’d been quite a few weeks since I’d been out on the motorbike for a day trip, so when my old friend ‘CS’ offered up […] Read More
Reading Time: < 1 minute We were out in the agricultural hills of central Kanagawa prefecture a couple of weeks ago, and stopped off at the 90 year old home […] Read More
Reading Time: 7 minutes Imagine if there was a place called ‘such is life’ . Well, potentially in Japan, there is, and it’s a huge dam. I say potentially, […] Read More
Reading Time: 4 minutes We like to get out camping regularly, so I thought I should add one of the recent places we stayed at since I haven’t added […] Read More
Reading Time: 6 minutes One thing that seems to happen all over the world, are hoaxes and frauds, like Piltdown Man, crop circles and Justin Bieber being a lizard, to […] Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes Another new year is upon us – 2015, or heisei (平成) 27 by the local system – so Happy New Year, or Akemashite Omedetougozaimasu as […] Read More