JAPAN | Sunday, 30 Aug 2009 | Views [135]
Last weekend I got invited to to go along to a Baseball game between Japan's top two teams in Fukuoka. Why not? Never been to a ball game, and was not disappointed. Only knowing the most basic of the rules, I sat up there behind the guy who catches the ... Read more >
Tags: bikes, volcanoes, castles, games
JAPAN | Sunday, 16 Aug 2009 | Views [65]
Kita is north in Japanese, and Kyushu is the southernmost of the main islands in Japan. Kitakyushu is the main city in the north of Fukuoka prefecture at the northern end of the island. A couple of weeks ago two of us went for a train ride out to Moji, ... Read more >
Tags: islands, space, fish
JAPAN | Sunday, 19 Jul 2009 | Views [178] | Comments [1]
The Japanese call Kokura the "Lucky City". Apparently the pilot of the B29 with the second atomic bomb "Fat Man" was told to only drop it if he had clear skies and could see the target. Despite three runs at the target the cloud held ... Read more >
Tags: festivals, drums
MALAYSIA | Sunday, 24 May 2009 | Views [192]
Found it Dad. 'North up the coast from Melaka 20 -30 minutes'. How hard could that be? Not that easy when it's your first time here and the instructions are fifty years old. All that is there now is a huge Petronas (State fuel company) facility, a ... Read more >
CHINA | Monday, 2 Feb 2009 | Views [236] | Comments [1]
Last winter was my first northern hemisphere winter, and come Xmas holidays last year, the last direction I was going to head was further north(I went south to Sanya on Hainan island instead). This year I thought I had better go while I am still so close.... Read more >
Tags: snow, ice, harbin, china
CHINA | Sunday, 11 Jan 2009 | Views [195] | Comments [1]
Five guys walk in to a hospital with an empty baijiu (local firewater - 'white wine') bottle and ask for it to be filled with pure alcohol. Back to the beginning; We set off from Chang Shan Hao gold mine at around 8:00 AM in -20 or so weather in ... Read more >
Tags: china, cold, driving, laughs
VIETNAM | Saturday, 3 Jan 2009 | Views [279] | Comments [3]
The guidebooks and website claim it is a sleepy litle place on the Vietnamese coast that is popular with weekenders from Saigon (Ho Chi Minh) and backpackers looking for a break from their travels. They forgot about the hundreds of tourists from all ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, kiting, mui ne
JAPAN | Thursday, 9 Oct 2008 | Views [210]
Four of us finished work and got into Fukuoka for the night. We did the usual walk around to see what there was to see, found a pub, another good restaurant, found another pub, and called it a night. Next day there were only two. The two Japanese guys ... Read more >
Tags: oktoberfest
JAPAN | Sunday, 5 Oct 2008 | Views [234]
Tacked on to the end of the Hiroshima trip we got a ferry across to the Miajima (I hope I spelt that right) Shrine. It's a very popular, and famous shrine in Japan because the gate is in the sea and the temple is built on platforms on sandflats that ... Read more >
Tags: vending machine, shrine, waterfall, bridge, eating
JAPAN | Sunday, 21 Sep 2008 | Views [161] | Comments [4]
Hiroshima is well known as the city where the first Atomic bomb was dropped but it isn't until you visit the site and see some of the preserved ruins that you can get a real feel for what these people went through. Listening to the Last Post at dawn ... Read more >
Tags: memorial, war, a bomb
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