Nikko Fukuoka

... I took the train from Saga to Karatsu and back this afternoon. Karatsu is an old town with a long tradition of making rough, non-symmetrical pottery, some of which looks like it was burned. It's not my style, but I'm glad I got to see it ...

... the other stuff was!! But glad we did as it was the best noodle soup we have had all trip. Then we decided to be brave and order some other little bits - Rob ordered some chicken skewers, which although this is what it was, we had no idea what part of the chicken it was from as it was hard and crunchy!!!! Lesley then pointed at a few things that could not be identified but thought it might be ...

... Pilzen cremig und mit Fleisch das einen Fettrand hatte, aber sehr dünn geschnitten war - ich tippe mal auf Schwein oder Rind - aber nachdem es andi probiert hat und meinte man schmeckt das Fett nicht hab ichs auch probiert und es war echt sehr sehr gut und man konnte kein fett schmecken...) echt lecker sowas. Der Hauptgang war auch sehr lecker aber der maguru bleibt unvergesslich ^_°

I stayed a few days in this nice and modern city located on Japan southern island before taking a 6h ferry to Korea. To sum up I'd say: Good looking women and good food here. More info in pictures' comments.

Fun stuffs about Japanese and ideas:

1. They drive on the left side of the road. Can somebody explain? That I know, there was no English influence here..
2. You read a magazine from bottom to top (I mean right to left)
3 ...

... de una nube de hombres esperando su turno para cargarlas. El publico y los hombres a la espera van echando agua a los "cargadores" para irlos refrescando.
La calor a las 5am ya era insoportable. Nosotras estabamos entre el publico, que se habia agolpado al frente para ver las carrozas pasar. Mucha gente estaban bebiendo cerveza, probablemente continuando la fiesta de la noche anterior.
Cuando termino, volvimos al hostal a dormir, hasta las diez, que teniamos ...

... I remember being more mature in my younger years. Maybe I am making up for many Saturday nights of not drinking, Anyway..... I think I have made up enough now, Going to take it easy for the rest of Japan. Going to stay away from the very beautiful yet crazy Japanese women (will have to walk around with my eyes closed), the weird guys who like to High five me and tell me I'm handsome......... and just relax for the next week....

... in Italia (almeno quelli della mia eta') hanno trascorso mezza infazia guardando cartoni animati giapponesi. Ogni volta che ne citavo qualcuno (tipo Mazinga, Holly & Benji, Mila & Shiro, etc. - anche se alcuni di questi hanno titoli diversi in Giappone) la reazione era la solita esclamazione di stupore giapponese: "Eeeeeehhhh??!!!". In stanza con me c'e' un tizio spagnolo, Victor, ed e' decisamente divertente parlare in una sorta di intruglio di inglese, spagnolo e ...

... the next day, beginning with a trip to the Momochi district to see the Fukuoka Tower. It seems that every city in Japan has a tower of some sort, and I usually get roped into paying to go up it, but on this occasion I used my initiative and headed for the nearby Hawks Park Hotel. I conveniently ignored the signs saying "Guests only beyond this point" and boarded the elevator to the 35th floor, where a couple of attractive Japanese ladies ...

... up melancholy. He headed inside and I stayed up on deck. I stared out at the sea for a long time, thinking about all the possible paths before me and which one I should take now that the road that I was on no longer seemed like the right one. I wrote a few things in my notebook: "I recognize a lot of 'woe is me' and not a lot of action." I was thinking about being lonely here, and it occurred to me that I had hardly even tried to alleviate that. I could've hung around outside of the ...

... 14 days. The system of using the card is similar to that in Paris. At each subway stop, their are toll gates, through which one could only enter by feeding the coupon into the system and retrieving it once the toll gate was passed. Similarly, upon leaving the station, one had to feed it into the system and the system determined the charge upon exit. There was no such thing as jumping the toll gate as is common in America and Europe ...