After long meetings all week and a late night getting to Tokyo last night I was determined to spend a few hours today with just me and my iPod wandering around Tokyo and trying to…
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An evening walk around Nagoya
A long day with one of the partners, tough questions but ultimately productive I think. Wandered out looking for dinner afterwards, ended up (and yes it’s a cliché) with sushi, very good sushi at that….
Ho, ho, ho – Japanese style
It is absolutely fascinating to see the Western traditions and cultures that Japan has adopted, and in made it’s own in some way. Right now from the displays in shop windows and the decorations it’s…
Kyoto, just for one day
After a long day of travel Saturday I got to the hotel showered, ate (Tebasaki, a local dish of spicy fried chicken and sinus clearingly good) and went to bed. Yesterday I had a couple…
Letting the train take the strain
I’ve done a few trips on trains recently; Everett to Seattle for a football game was rather a nice and low stress way to get to the game. Other than in airports and subways it…
Konnichi Wa
Days like this give those stressful days with all the bad stuff and accusations a more healthy perspective. It’s been an up and down week. Rough at times and wonderful in other moments, both personally…
An invite to play in the snow…
Yesterday at lunch a friend announced the ski season is here and wouldn’t it be fun to go play in the snow at Steven Pass today… In the style of my mother, it was more…
Queen of the skies
It weights over 400 tons fully loaded, carries 415 people 7,000 miles around the world and all this is done 6 miles up in the air at 615 miles an hour. I get the physics…
A little time to my self…
I love Italy; I once worked for an Italian company and spent a lot of time in the country. This week I have the chance to spend a couple of days in Rome. As will…
Volcanoes, Yogyakarta and no itinerary…
In the last few weeks there has been a number of dramatic footage of Mount Merapi on Java erupting. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated and st last count a couple of hundred…