My first observation about Liverpool, shortly after arriving, is that the suspicion of everyone in the customer service industry here is that you are either in the process of ripping them off, have ripped them off, or are about to rip them off in the near future. One of the first tasks any visitor to [...]
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Trainfuckers.com
16Jul07[ Two days ago... ] I have been encouraged out of London this weekend by the promises of a knee-slapping night out at a Liverpudlian rock club as a means to a housewarming of friends Seth and Gareth. Unfortunately, travel outside of this hallowed city, rare as it is, requires use of one of the [...]
Braille in Japanese
17May07During our beer tasting sessions on the first couple of nights in Japan we noticed that some of the cans sold in the local shop had braille embossed into their tops. This led to some speculation on how braille in Japanese works, speculation which is of course entirely sated by Wikipedias article on Japanese Braille. [...]
Nekobukuro
16May07On one of our days in Tokyo, we travelled to Ikebukuro and took the chance to visit a mini cat petting-zoo place called Nekobukuro. It’s on the eighth floor of the Tokyu Hands department store, the rest of the floor taken up with a pet shop. You pay 600 yen to enter and you are [...]
Naked old men
15May07[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 [...]
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. [...]
