Hakata Park Hotel Fukuoka

... all the stuff we didn't carry in backpacks for the last 8 months so here we are, unpacking and repacking boxes, and shifting our necessary items to suitcases to bring with us to Oman... which is, tomorrow! Yep, our flights have been booked and tomorrow we leave Japan to fly all the way to Muscat, where we're staying for a couple days until we do the short jump to Salalah our new home. <br><br>What is ...

... FIDO" (Friendly Indelligent Dog Option) would be more fitting:).<br><br>Several pretty young Japanese women were on hand to demonstrate the robots and answer any questions. One had just fed an AIBO (i.e. replaced its batteries) when a trio of female Korean Navy officers happened by. Reading from a command list, one officer commanded the digital canine to dance. Their eyes lit up with amusement when the little robot sounded a tune and started to dance.<br><br>I made my way around ...

WON'T YOU TAKE ME TO RETRO TOWN?*<br><br>Kitakyushu is the 11th(?) largest city in Japan, but, aside from Space World, it gets hardly a mention in my collection of guidebooks, maybe because it has heavy industry, including a large steel plant. Surfing the internet to discover something worth visiting in Kitakyushu, I happened to find a PDF of a guidemap for Retro Town Mojiko. I couldn't resist! Mojiko is literally at ...

... I saw some Hakusan bowls at the Nagasaki Prefecure's store. A year ago, I saw more at the Ceramic Wholesalers' Plaza in Aria. This year, I was determined to go to the Hakkusan Factory Store in Hasami, which has no railroad station. Wih the help of www.diddlefinger.com, I was able to make a map of the route to Hakusan from the nearest train station, which is in Arita. The walk took 2 hours in each direction, but everything on display at ...

... and experience was worth it!<br><br>The next day we boarded the Beetle - a high speed Jet Foil Boat which lifts out of the water and skims on ski-like foils. It took less than 3 hours to do 120 miles across the sea to South Korea which is pretty quick. It felt like you were on a place or a train but was even smoother, so no sea sickness, even after having an early morning beer - well, it was free!!

... videos hochlade. Bin schon reichlich müde von den Blasen auf den Füßen sprech ich gar nicht. Die verdank ich den neuen Schuhen (die etwas höher sind) und Andis Orientierungssinn ^_^. <br>So dann mach ich da morgen weiter,wir haben hier im hotel zwei nächste gebucht und wir schauen mal wo es uns dann hinführt, aber dazwischen melde ich mich ja noch.<br><br>Zum Glück hab ich die ...

... ressemble à un oiseau, une sonnerie quelconque, une musique traditionnelle...chaque traverse de piéton émet un son différent pour ne pas se confondre avec sa voisine. Puis sur les trottoirs, il y a aussi des marques pour les aveugles. Les lignes en relief |||| donnent la direction que prend le trottoir alors que les points ::: marquent soit un arrêt pour la traverse, soit un changement de direction possible.  Les toilettes....AHHHH les fameuses toilettes ...

... ne Millionenstadt. Es gibt ein paar alte Tempel ab** nicht so viele dass man Tempel ov**flow bekommt:-) Es gibt auch ein paar Museen, da heute ab** Montag ist, haben die meisten geschlossen. Das Fukuoka Art Museum war geoeffnet, sehr int**essant im siebten Stock ein** Shopping Mall (hatte ab** eigenen Expressaufzug:-). Ich hoffe ja, meinen Japan Besuch gut genug getimed zu haben, dass ich das Kirschbluetenfest, Japans groesstes ...

... s surprising to see how much more cutting-edge and exciting of a city it is. The word's apparently out in the English-teaching world as well, because according to most reports, it's one of the hardest places to line up a job in the country - simply due to so many people wanting to live and work here. Knowing the value and importance of a package deal, Mayu and I arranged our bullet train tickets along with one night's stay at a hotel in town. Amazingly the total ...

... the rice seed is called "kome" in the raw state and "gohan" once boiled/cooked. "gohan" however is also another word for meal, e.g. asa gohan, hiru gohan, bangohan, meaning breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But as I will explain later, rice does indeed represent a major part of each of these meals, also breakfast. Well, there is so much to say, I keep veering of the actual topic. I think when I return to Germany, I would like ...