An entire forest just for me
29 October 2019
Surprise rainy day visit to Institute for nature study
Japanese weather reports cannot be trusted. Last night I was planning my day, and checked the weather, bit of cloud, no rain, sunny periods. This ....
Sky Soba
28 October 2019
Walking to the Skytree to eat hot soba
Not many photos tonight. All I did was walk from Ueno to the Skytree and back and eat some delicious hot soba in a foodcourt. I like foodcourts, I....
Expensive trip to small mountain
28 October 2019
Daytrip to hike Mount Tsukuba using public transport
Today I went to the second most popular mountain near Tokyo, Tsukuba. Strangely I have not been here before, I thought I had, but my memory was wr....
Finally ran out of puff
27 October 2019
Exploring the overhead tracks of Ueno
As the title says. I am exhausted. I cannot go any further. Also astute viewers may notice the addition of a subtitle thing under the title. What ....
Killing time in familiar places
27 October 2019
Wandering around Ueno and Akihabara on a Sunday afternoon
As mentioned above, my flight and train and other things all added up to get me to Ueno at about 9AM, for a 3PM check in at the hotel. Oh well. De....
Still not in Tokyo
27 October 2019
Hong Kong to Narita on a Hong Kong Airlines A330
Now I am on the very familiar Kesei Skyliner train going from Narita airport to Tokyo, which is far, but fast. I am typing this on the train and t....
Bike pump
26 October 2019
How to kill 8 hours in Hong Kong airport
My flight to Hong Kong was comfortable and less than half full. I had the entire middle block to myself and could have laid down, but did not. In ....
I do not care if I am late
26 October 2019
Eating breakfast at the house lounge in Melbourne airport
OK, so as happens every November, I am heading to Japan for 4 weeks to climb mountains, shoot at typhoons and annoy the new Emperor. This time I w....
The shortest update
22 July 2019
Going from Heathrow to Abu Dhabi on an Etihad Airbus A380
Now I am back in the Etihad lounge at Abu Dhabi airport eating waffles. The flight was fine, an Airbus A380, completely full. 7 hour leg. The onl....