Toyama Black Cider (It’s Not Sushi 01)

Starting a new video Project where I look at the weird and wonderful food and drink that Japan has to offer. As you may have guessed… It’s not sushi!

Shots #91 Ikaho at Night

Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture [On Location 1]

I spent a day in Fukui Prefecture with my old university buddy. We checked out a few things and chatted about the place. Take a look.

Drive To Almost Nikko

What better way to kick off the new year than to tell you about shit that happened in 2012. My neck is stuffed so I am at home and have free time so why not get the backlog out of the way…

The cat and I got into the car and went for a drive. We had a general Idea of direction but no destination was planned. We headed up Mt. Akagi at first and were worried by the piles of snow on the side of the road. Being late autumn, we new some snow had already fallen but we expected less. There were some threatening clouds in the sky too but they dumped their load on the peaks slightly above the level of the road.

Happy Hebi

2013. Year of the Snake.

I am in South Africa at the moment. When I return to Japan I will post more. The internet here is too damn slow.

Have a good 2013 everyone and thanks for following this blog / my youtube channel.

CAKE! And it's not a lie!

Up day the 2 special needs groups at my school for some culinary chaos. They made Christmas cakes. Some students cut paper stencils to decorate their cakes. One student who loves the Touhou Project wanted her drawing of Rumia to be on hers.

Incidentally. the blogger app for iOS works... just not very well.

Japanese Money [Japan, How It Is 03]

Fukui Pref. S14 Dress up ~5 hit combo~

Live Hangout about the M7.3 quake off the coast of Iwate pref.

pic from tenki.jp (Click pic for source)

There was an M7.3  today at 17:13 in the same fault as the big one on in March 2011. Where I live it was Shindo 4 which is a measurement of percieved intensity. 4 is not common in these parts. There was a Tsunami warning in effect on the coast. The sirens rang out and people were evacuated. Thankfully the larest tsunami was only 1 meter and it struck an area where the land was not at 0m. A 1 meter wave in parts of Iwate would have been dangerous. because the tsunami barriers were all destroyed in 2011. 

Ofunato City only had a 20cm wave so everything there is OK. I called one of my mates who was cold because he was on his way up a hill but other than that, he was fine.

Below is a google hangout recording that I took earlier on. It is 30 minutes long and it was live so my thoughts come out of my mouth as they arrive and I am often distracted by the TV news. But hey. If you have time to kill. Check it out.

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Japan, How It Is - 02 Drifting. Ebisu Circuit.