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Archive for April, 2008
the jesus pizza
24Apr08We just hopped the language barrier, smashed our way through the mental Japanese addressing system, ordered online and ate this astonishing beast. It is a 15 inch pizza with burgers on it. The chap from Dominos who delivered it was, as always here, incredibly polite. Everyone in the hostel’s lounge looked at us like we [...]
Bonus Beer review
23Apr08Today we completed our unfinished business from last year; namely to get to the top of the Fushimi Inari shrine we visited last year. The shrine sits on the side of a mountain and is crisscrossed by footpaths enclosed by densely packed orange torii gates. The last time we tried to summit this bugger of [...]
Japan beer review 2008
22Apr08It’s raining. It’s been raining. It’s always rained. There’s never been a time it didn’t rain. This is Tokyo in April 2008. It’s even raining indoors, which managed to alarm our host, Satoshi, who called in a number of men to observe the problem and conclude that nothing can be done until Monday. It’s OK, [...]
It’s raining geeks (and rain)
14Apr08We shan’t talk about last night. I’m sure my compatriots will have already spilled the beans, but the behaviour of men deprived of sleep for 36 hours and put through the sausage machine of international air flight should be looked upon in a favourable context. Like the naughty boy in class whose Mum just died. [...]
Off to Japan, brb
10Apr08My cohorts and I are departing for Japan tomorrow afternoon for a two-week exploration of the aesthetics and anthropological nature of the land of the rising sun. Some may stick their noses up and claim that we are merely going to indulge in deep-geekery, public nudity and drink all the beer we can, but I [...]
