Well we went off to the horse racing on a very sunny day. The place was large and very impressive. No great money was made but we met some great people. Of course Dominic bumped into someone who is the son of a guy that Raymond knows really well....
After a tasty Italian meal just at the end of our street we went to a sports bar to watch the Irish game. Painful!
Dominic faced his first full week at work.
After a tasty Italian meal just at the end of our street we went to a sports bar to watch the Irish game. Painful!
Dominic faced his first full week at work.
Whilst I went out and about meeting people. Done a bit of teaching, had a yoga lesson and took part in rice cake making. It started over 25 years ago when a priest gave his breakfast to someone who was homeless. So now every day rice cakes are made at the church and then distributed.
Went to see a flower show over in a park. A company called something like Tokyo window box services was doing a great job of creating wonderful looking things in various containers. I was particularly inspired by one in a plastic water bottle. On the way home I bought some plants and created my own version. When I told Dominic how great the displays were he had difficulty suppressing his laughs at my attempt.
On Saturday we headed off to a Frank Gehry exhibition. And then for pancakes. OMG the crepes were so good we could've been on the market Square in Ile de Re !
A journey out north-west to buy a second hand bike was fruitless. I almost bought a blue one for 30 quid until Dominic told me it didn't have any gears!
Out in the evening to a gathering at someone's gallery in their apartment - ticket price was either with or without wine tasting. Went without otherwise I would have been tempted to get value out of my tenner!
Tokyo celebrated Halloween on Sunday so loads of people were dressed up and we stayed to watch a bit of the procession in town. Then back home to cook the thing we learnt in our first week here.
But of course the important news Back to the Future! Liz and I had dressed up for the Red Cross Christmas party as the Doc and Marty with the car! Chris Evans was apparently talking about the film and so Liz sent in the photo of us and a text and apparently he read it out. The text not the photo!
Went to see a flower show over in a park. A company called something like Tokyo window box services was doing a great job of creating wonderful looking things in various containers. I was particularly inspired by one in a plastic water bottle. On the way home I bought some plants and created my own version. When I told Dominic how great the displays were he had difficulty suppressing his laughs at my attempt.
On Saturday we headed off to a Frank Gehry exhibition. And then for pancakes. OMG the crepes were so good we could've been on the market Square in Ile de Re !
A journey out north-west to buy a second hand bike was fruitless. I almost bought a blue one for 30 quid until Dominic told me it didn't have any gears!
Out in the evening to a gathering at someone's gallery in their apartment - ticket price was either with or without wine tasting. Went without otherwise I would have been tempted to get value out of my tenner!
Tokyo celebrated Halloween on Sunday so loads of people were dressed up and we stayed to watch a bit of the procession in town. Then back home to cook the thing we learnt in our first week here.
But of course the important news Back to the Future! Liz and I had dressed up for the Red Cross Christmas party as the Doc and Marty with the car! Chris Evans was apparently talking about the film and so Liz sent in the photo of us and a text and apparently he read it out. The text not the photo!
😜😜😜.jake
ReplyDeleteLoving the blog Jane - keep it up as we're following it weekly and enjoying your adventures. Thanks for the call yesterday and sorry we couldn't chat - have a fab time in Osaka and look forward to catching up up soon. Xx ps it did take Jake to get my reply posted - the youth!!!!!
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