Just posting a quick link to Simon’s itinerary of what we’re doing in Japan. It’s rather out of date, especially around the Kyoto/Osaka area, but hey.
The main addition is I should be heading west to Hiroshima, and even further west to Fukuoka/Nagasaki to visit Anthony (a friend from the Japanese course) instead of spending so much time in Osaka. Hopefully Simon will post a more up to date version soon.
I’m just popping off to Wales for the weekend.
I bought a nice new hat to replace the one I lost at the beginning of the year (a tragedy of truly epic proportions), and some funky new swim shorts. I will be the king of the beach.
I’ll take my book along in case the king of the beach thing doesn’t work out.
I can honestly say that Paris is a lovely city. No, really.
As we didn’t have much time, we had to skip the Louvre, though we did manage to fit in the Eiffel Tower, Concorde, le Champs Elysees, l’Arc de Triomphe, and many other things including the Rodin museum (Rodin did the sculpture “Le Penseur”).
It was cold though. Really really really cold.
Funnily enough I couldn’t find any litter on the Champs Elysees. Even though there were no bins. Not in keeping with my experience of cities – maybe the French actually care about the state of their streets.
Tomorrow afternoon I’m travelling to Paris for a few days with my sister Kim and a friend (Phil Chapman). Should be great fun, though it means I need to pack this evening, and make sure I get up before 12pm. These things are always hard to achieve.
We return at 7pm on Wednesday, so I’ll be missing the last Kempo session of the pre-Christmas period, but these things happen :/ On another Kempo note, grading will be in February, at a general Kempo seminar held over a weekend. Looking forward to meeting other Kempo peeps, as I didn’t make it to Mizuno-sensei’s restaurant this evening…
Well, I’m off to pack, maybe watch some anime, and get some sleep.