Many years ago, in fact in around 1997, I somehow stumbled upon a website called pelago.com, a play on ‘archipelago’, being based around stories and […] Read More
Category: japan
Happy New Year 2011, or 明けまして おめでとう ございます 2011! (Akemashite Omedetougozaimasu). Another year begins; for some reason a lot of people didn’t seem to like […] Read More

Just a bit of a random post here, based on a couple of snaps for Pokemon and One Piece. I wouldn’t even go so far […] Read More

December 12th. 2010 marked the second Tokyo Toy Run (check here for last year’s). Essentially the Tokyo Toy Run was a group of bikers and […] Read More

Just a short post. Over the last few years, perhaps due to family and tastes, I just seem to have gotten out of drinking beer […] Read More

I just thought I’d post on a little bit of simple cooking for a change, and something fairly synonymous with Japan – miso shiru. This […] Read More

Every summer, places the length and breadth of Japan celebrate summer with festivals and fireworks displays (花火). Since we moved out of Tokyo, we’ve been […] Read More
So we rolled for the first bike day out of 2010. Actually, this is the first day out I’ve ever done in January. It’s a […] Read More
So what was the Tokyo Toy Run? Basically, it’s an event whereby a lot of bikers got together, brought toys and such and did a […] Read More
They say things come in threes; or you lose things in threes; or both, I forget which. So after a fairly long and welcome break […] Read More