Richmond Hotel Fukuoka Tenjin

... 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 ...

... br><br>As I reached the top of the escalator, the place came into view. Robots ahead!...<br><br>-----<br>ROBOSQUARE ENTRANCE:<br><br>Ceiling-length glass displays housed vintage robots. I went right for TMSUK-03 and TMSUK-04 (pronounced, "TIM-SUCK" - insert childish joke here:)<br><br>Built in 1998, TMSUK-03 is a short little guy with a big head, two arms with grippers, and two tractor treads for locomotion. It was the world&#8217;s first experiment robot controlled remotely by ...

... will have to wait for my next trip! <br><br>What better way to finish off my retro day than to stay at the Comfort Hotel in Hakata. The carpet in the rooms has a pattern that could be Polynesian art, a Rohrshoch ((?)) test, or an artifact from a well-preserved 1950's American living room. It's located across the street from the Hakata railroad station. Compared to the other hotels where I've stayed in Japan, this ...

... hotel guests. Reminds me a bit of that long-neglected hit by Reparata and the Delrons, "Saturday Night Didn't Happen." <br><br>Tomorrow is my big hike--I am taking the train to Arita and walking to Hasami, which should be about an hour's walk, maybe longer. Thanks to computer mapping, I have a good map of the route, including the locations of convenience stores along the way. Hasami is a town where there's a company, Hakusan, that makes ...

... 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 ...

... eingepackt. <br><br>Was ich noch vergessen habe zu erwähnen, wir haben hier den besten maguru (thunfisch) unseres lebens gegessen. Zugegeben es war nicht billig und eigentlich war es nicht der hauptgang sondern nur das Gedeck (das man hier auch zahlt wie in Italien, nur kriegt man hier noch ne kleine Vorspeise diese bestand eben aus besagten Maguru der eingelegt oder so war und etwas ...

... prendre plus de 30 minutes. La station suivante, Kasugabaru, est une station express. Les trains locaux et les express vont s'y arrêter. Pour éviter de passer plus de 30 minutes dans le train, je fais un transfert à Kasugabaru et je prends le train Express qui s'arrête généralement 2 minutes après le local. Ça prend donc 12 minutes environ avec ce train pour me rendre à Tenjin. L'express saute des stations pour ne faire que celles un peu plus achalandées ...

... laubnis gegeben ohne zB ein Flugticket sehen zu wollen (and**s als bei mein** **sten Einreise 1990). Die Zoelln**in wollte dann ab** meinen grossen Rucksack sehen, ob nur aus Neugi** und um ihr Englisch zu testen od** als wirkliche Kontrolle weiss ich nicht, die Kontrolle war jedenfalls recht lax. Ich hatte v**gessen wie postmod**n Japan doch ist. Meine **sten Eindruecke, es gibt mehr Fussgaeng** (und Fahradfahr**, die sich hi** all ...

September has arrived and with it the comforting reassurance that the sweltering heat of summer will soon be at an end. Better still, it means that we've hit the period of the year with the bulk of the national holidays, which has the obvious benefit of allowing Mayu and me to do a little more traveling. The third week of September is particularly nice: two national holidays fall in the same week. That coupled with our days off (and the fact that Mayu's regular lessons ...

... least 3 toll booths each way, and each time, one had to pay around Yen 500 - 800 per highway stretch. I believe both ways would have cost us arount EUR 30 for the trip. Not unlike Frankfurt, we were quickly out in the country side. The hills loomed to our left, and the sea stretched out to the right of the highway. But in the zone of many miles prior to the foot of the hills, rice paddies after rice paddies were ...