Month: June 2013

Last week I posted some pictures of Japanese TV. No more than five minutes after hitting the ‘publish’ button on my last post, I was treated to this on TV. That, my friends, is a TV show teaching you how to make a mojito. I don’t think any more proof was needed to let you…

I’m writing this from a small hotel room in Kobe, near a train station called K Computer Mae. This is where I will be housed until Friday of this week, so expect next week’s entry to put you to sleep because there’s not a heck of a lot I can get up to while I’m…

This week brought me some very interesting moments to share with you all. So I’ll soften you up by showing you some photos I took first. I can’t disagree with a drink machine that offers drinks for $1AUD. I also like how the 100Y is actually capable of talking too. And while we’re on the…

It turns out I completely forgot to mention the tea ceremony itself in my last post. For a few hours last Sunday, Nakamura-san hosted a tea ceremony as part of a machiya festival that has been happening at different locations across Kyoto. Part of the week leading up to said tea ceremony was testing different…

I’m not even really sure where to start retelling this week. There were no ferret orgies, for one, so it seems like entry has absolutely no chance of matching the last. I did see a ferret chase a cat and screech at it, though. Reginald has been missing in action for the past week. Another…