In room bike repairs…
Changing the brompton tyre…
Tokyo
Morning Tokyo!
Oh, how I am enjoying your sunshine
Morning!
A little early…
Pleased to report the flight was uneventful…. Apart from a little turbulence (mum you would of enjoyed it) at the time of serving food. We were able to watch the Japanese movie “An”, which is only screening twice in Adelaide (lovely film, which may make you cry). Kym managed to sleep for about 5 hours…and I think I was asleep for 4. The flight we were on reached Tokyo at 5am, great for that business meeting, but for holiday makers a little less useful. After a couple of transfers, walking in circles, loosing a suitcase down an escalator to an inspecting tourists we finally got to Tokyo station found suitcase lockers and decided to walk around – it was around 7:30.
Ginza is a great shopping street… even for window shopping. There were not many people on the streets – unusual to see it so quiet.
We were able to navigate ourselves around given previous visits… and eventually back to the train station.
Kogashi Shoyu-men…
Beer and ramen between museums..
Ok doughnuts…
Granola and tomato doughnuts… Yum… Eat your heart out Krispy Kreme!
Moves update
It is true that we have been eating a lot, but I should let you know about our “output” so that you can make your own judgement whether the our input is in balance… Or not.
Friday, 20.6 km walking
Saturday 15.1 km walking
Sunday 13.0 km walking
Monday 13.4 km walking
Tuesday 13.9 km walking and 11.4 km cycling
Wednesday 14.8 km walking and 7.3 km cycling
Thursday 15.7 km walking
Today … We’ve already done. 13.3 km and we’re not finished yet.
At this rate, in a little over a week, we will have walked more than 150km and ridden nearly 20km as I relax in my comfortable Shinkansen seat going @ 250 or so km/h back to Tokyo. We do have a rather fine dinner booked!
I’ll drink a Suntory Premium Malts to that achievement.
Bye Tokyo… See you next week
Those few days flew. But boy it was fun. But luckily for us we will be here again next weekend.
If that’s your petite fours selection, then I am moving to Japan.
We visited Les Creations de Narisawa last night for dinner.
There weren’t too many decisions to be had, other than whether or not to go for the wine pairing. I am not sure that was really a hard decision! The wine pairing involved an exploration of Japanese, French and German wines over a 35 year period! Wow!
In any case, all this simplicity and lack of decision making was blow away at the end when the petite four trolley was brought over for us to choose some.
The tiny tasting light of macarons? The Apricot jelly? Green tea mochi? Seasonal macarons. Cigar biscuits, oh oh oh so many I can’t even remember them all. This must be part of the selection criteria for the waiters.
Have a look for yourself – it was so big we couldn’t fit it into a single photo. It was taken with out Lytro – so you can refocus it by pointing to the part you want to focus on.
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Oh, and did forget to tell you this was after our two dessert courses.
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and
Morning!
Ah…. on board train to Tokyo from Narita airport. It’s currently raining, but it won’t dampen our spirits!
