I appear to have missed October
So Japan was interesting. Tokyo is a concrete jungle with odd random temples and oddities in among.
I went to Kamakura.
I saw the top of Fuji-san, the ninja volcano (we drove up a hill and the mountain swapped from side to side as we did so).
The bullet train is indeed cool. Smooth, quiet, comfortable and when one goes through a station without stopping it's stupidly fast.
We got hit by a typhoon. In Kyoto. There ought to be a link between typhoons and being where the (largely ignored) climate protocols were written.
Two atomic bomb sites (well, hypocentres) visited. The Nagasaki marker is as perfect.
I'm now having a few months off raw fish and some time off rice.
Meanwhile, work have 'promoted' me. They haven't really - they've changed my job title, given a pay rise in lieu of no more overtime, and made it 3 months notice to leave. It was 'voluntary' of course; they asked me, but there really isn't an alternative option.
So, November then...
I went to Kamakura.
I saw the top of Fuji-san, the ninja volcano (we drove up a hill and the mountain swapped from side to side as we did so).
The bullet train is indeed cool. Smooth, quiet, comfortable and when one goes through a station without stopping it's stupidly fast.
We got hit by a typhoon. In Kyoto. There ought to be a link between typhoons and being where the (largely ignored) climate protocols were written.
Two atomic bomb sites (well, hypocentres) visited. The Nagasaki marker is as perfect.
I'm now having a few months off raw fish and some time off rice.
Meanwhile, work have 'promoted' me. They haven't really - they've changed my job title, given a pay rise in lieu of no more overtime, and made it 3 months notice to leave. It was 'voluntary' of course; they asked me, but there really isn't an alternative option.
So, November then...