Posted in Parties, Festivals, and Holidays, Recipes on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our Golden Week plans (and by “plans” I mean “half-assed, too-late attempt to book a trip to Pusan”) fell through, which left Laura and I with lots and lots of precious, precious free time to enjoy ourselves and the gorgeous late-spring weather. On Monday I spent the whole day cooking, and the whole night eating [...]
Posted in Parties, Festivals, and Holidays, Society and Culture, Travel on Thursday, April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
For a city as densely developed as Tokyo, they sure find a lot of room for cherry trees. We enjoyed a picturesque hanami stroll along the northwestern perimeter of the Imperial Palace moat, and then into Yasukuni Shrine, where tall, close-together trees created a downy pink canopy beneath a pristinely blue sky.
Posted in Drawings, Food, Parties, Festivals, and Holidays, Society and Culture, Travel on Saturday, March 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After breakfast in Kurokawa, we took another lovely bath, then packed up and left for our next stop: Aso. Our perpetually pleasant innkeeper drove us to the bus stop, and just a few minutes after he dropped us off, he was back again, to give us a complimentary tourist map of Aso! What a guy.
Then [...]
