(Or: if your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough) August. A beer garden, halfway between Camden and Kentish Town, ...

Arriving  in Tokyo, busier, noisier than I realised from our less than 24 hour stay here at the start of the trip. So many shop...

Meeting with Y, M's Japanese conversation buddy from London now back in Japan, and his girlfriend, S. Wonderful to be w...

Hiroshima.  The Peace Memorial Museum, A-bomb dome, Hall of Remembrance. Tragic, incomprehensible.  Taking away my words.  ...

We were in Japan for two weeks. It was hot, thirty five degrees centigrade. Hotter than ideal for walking round temples, down b...