Tag: life
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Holiday Update
The Christmas holiday has been interesting. I made a roast dinner for a couple of friends who happened to be in town or had no other place to be and then ended up have a marathon of Californication’s third season. I could say I haven’t received anything, but that would be something of a lie.…
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Goddamit
There have been no posts, because things are really crazy right now. I returned to find work had piled up while I was gone and basically it was 5 people doing the work of at least 8. And this means we can only work on the necessary daily chores rather than work on the projects…
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Last Notes from the Train Station
It’s been a week since I made any updates. Time to wrap this Japan business up. I’ve been back for a week, slowly re-adjusting to work and sleeping in my bed. Here is something I wrote on the last day before taking the train to the airport: “I’m early for my next train by about…
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Tokyo Experience
Tokyo was something extraordinary. It’s a city that never seems to end or sleep, at least where I stayed in Shinjuku. There are only a few notes on paper about this part of my trip. The main reason is that you find another person on the road and you tend to hang out a bit.…
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Today in Tokyo
Okay so my trip to Tokyo was becoming a mixed affair. I was spending most of my time with another traveler, a Portuguese fellow named Gonçalo, who was spending the last days of his trip in Tokyo as well. The shopping here for toys and related stuff was overall much better. The food was good.…
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Tokyo
Okay I am in Shinjuku now. I spent about 5 hours on a train and after checking in at the hotel, I spent some time with a Portuguese guy, named Gonçalo (sounds like “gon’ sailo”) wandering around the district at night discovering little parts of the city. Good fun was had. Tomorrow we plan to…
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima is a place that echoes the end of the war in the Pacific and the beginning of the cold war and threat of nuclear annihilation. The museums and the monuments all bespeak this. But this is only where those monuments are. If you walk around the city, you would hardly have guessed that none…
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Fukuoka
To get to Fukuoka, I rode the Shinkansen, which is the best example of mass transport I have seen so far. Not just because it’s a train that maglev capabilities and that it does a normal speed of about three hundred and twenty kilometres per hour. But because the thing is dead quiet and the…
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The Last Days of Osaka
My last two days were spent in Osaka going after two things, checking out the Osamu Tezuka Museum in Takarazuka and giving Nipponbashi a thorough search for something I wanted to get myself and as gifts for others. Travelling out to Takarazuka was intersting at least. It sits near to the outskirts of the city…
