Happy New Year to you schmoes still in 2014! Sent from my TRS-80
Category: Japan trip 2014-2015
Thief
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Still cold
But they did eventually set things on fire. Sent from my TRS-80
Cold
Been standing in the rain for an hour at this festival and nobody’s set anything on fire yet. Sent from my TRS-80
View from Miyajima
Pic below the cut
On Staying Connected
It goes without saying that we needed a good way to get online during this trip. Getting around, double-checking hotel reservations, and of course posting here all need at least a semi-reliable internet connection. After using a couple £15 burner phones on our UK trip a few years back, we opted to rent iPhones this…
Hiroshima Ichiban!
Today started with an early dash to the station to catch the 8:39 Shinkansen to Hiroshima. We had breakfast at the station–seriously, there’s good restaurants at train stations here–and then got on the train. Continued under the cut: food report and a quintessential Japanese okonomiyaki experience!
A couple of photos from the Osaka Aquarium
Only a couple of photos because it’s a pain to edit photos on the iPad. I’ll wait til we get back to post more. The Kaiyukan Aquarium is a five-story aquarium that features animals and habitats from around the Ring of Fire, the tectonically active zone that circles the Pacific Ocean. It’s five stories tall,…
Ahem
Toby would like you guys who like green tea Kit Kats to know that after taste testing you can keep your green tea Kit Kats as long as he gets all the orange Kit Kats. Sent from my TRS-80
Note to self
Sitting on the train in the Okayama station looking at the kanji on the station sign. The kanji for ‘oka’ looks like a man hanging from gravity boots in a doorway. (I already knew ‘yama’–it looks like a mountain and means ‘mountain’.) Sent from my TRS-80