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Typhoon season
... there is heavy rain now. Upon reflection, the Japanese Grand Prix can often be wet. A couple of years ago it was so wet that qualifying was postponed until Sunday morning due to typhoons. Perhaps we have come in typhoon season?
As it is tipping down outside, it's not exactly weather for sight seeing, but we have reconnoitred a Tex-Mex Restaurant a couple of streets away for dinner.
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Exhaustion
... are allow to shift during earthquakes. This is why they have survived so well for so long. Inside the garden was a bunch of plants such as bamboo and cherry, crape myrtle, iris, lily, etc. The guide walked us around the garden and explained that nobody is allowed inside the palace grounds but that these gardens are open. The emperor here is only a figurehead, like most royalty these days.
We then walked back to the bus and headed toward Asakusa. ...
Tokyo
... bolwerk, een enorme stad. Nee, een gigantische stad. Sterker, qua populatie (meer dan 35 miljoen mensen!) is er geen grotere stad in de wereld dan de hoofdstad van Japan. Tijdens het spitsuur in de metro staan mannetjes met zijden handschoentjes klaar om de meute mensen naar binnen te schuiven. Op de vraag of ik centraal in Tokyo een hostel had kan ik geen antwoorden geven. Ja, centraal. Maar op 40 minuten van de ene plek en op 20 van de andere. Maar goed, ik zal je ...
Celebrating 6 years in true Japanese style
... life, but as we were in Japan it seemed like the perfect place to try it out.
We plugged in the code of his song and waited for it to come on the screen and Annabelle turned on the camera and waited. Suddenly he was like a man possessed and Annabelle looked on a bit surprised as Chris belted out (You're the) Devil in Disguise by Elvis Presley, trying his best to get into the mood of it all by striking some Elvis poses as ...