[Date: Tues 8th May] I’m writing this on a shinkansen as it takes us past Mount Fuji. That’s quite an iconic Japanese thing, isn’t it? Yesterday was our rest day. After two days really hammering Tokyo and Tokyo hammering us back we thought we’d take the day and relax. With a Shinkansen to take the [...]
Archive for May, 2007
The Beer Post (Two)
11May07[Date: Thu 3rd May] Hello and welcome to day two of our super fantastic beer tasting session. Collating reports from last night, it appears that we all woke up at 5am due to jet-lag but were utterly hangover free. This time we review some beers but with added very very cheap sake, courtesy of Barry. [...]
Bread Roulette
11May07[Date: Mon 7th May] I’ve been keeping count of how many times I’ve hit my head in this ryokan. It was built in god-knows-when and is entirely made of dark wood. Smoking is banned by the Asakusa fire department and for good reason. We’d all be incinerated in seconds if so much as a spark [...]
The Beer Post (One)
10May07[Date: Wed 2nd May] Hello from Japan! We’ve been up for two days straight with no sleep on the plane. We landed at 9am Japan time and have had to stay up all day to sort out our body clocks. It’s 8pm now, we’ve checked into the ryokan and we’ve got a cheap easy night [...]
