machiruda

weather is rainy :-( (which explains why I'm inside)...

tucs, three weeks - two more to go! but from Monday onwards I'm actually travelling and taking my backpack up north to explore some unknown...

I spent all day today on a couch reading a book. I feel very lazy and boring but it was great, even if I had to travel to the other side of...

oh, well done! congrats :)

hmm, okay, in that case maybe a more local person can advise better. in my memory it's earlier in November, but that also depends a bit on...

Mel, whoops, that's me advising on out of date information! (thought crossed my mind while I typed it) apologies. I did see Kansai Scene...

7 days in Kansai is great, but agree with the others Tokyo/Takayama as daytrips are too far away. But one of them may fit into the 3 days...

roof top bars here are usually beer gardens and they open up later in the season (mid-june-ish, I guess). ...

ooh, forgot to come back to this. ended up getting the S100 - the upgrade of S95 which isn't sold anywhere anymore it seems. very happy...

it may also be nice to do a night in Koya-san, I've really enjoyed my stays there. Doing Nara overnight may also be nice, but it's easy to...

hakone might also be a nice place for the onsen/ryokan and the fuji-viewing in one go. ...

finished #11 on the plane - Bram Stoker's Dracula. another ereader, gutenburg read but I was really surprised about the book and really...

yeah.... not looking forward to it and happy i'm not around for the very short term. at the moment the cut on who's going and who's staying...

gah, it's starting to get a bit weird at the office - i don't know who knows, and doesn't know. general announcement won't be made until...

yeah, i'm happy to know now. formally they didn't have to share this news until late summer....