Month: <span>August 2018</span>

The Cakes of Japan

Not the best photograph. This is a chocolate/cream profiterole thing that I picked up at my local Combini. Put’s my efforts to shame.


The Street Where I Live

To give you an idea of where I am living this is the street where I am living.

 

Obviously the roads are quite narrow and sometimes as a pedestrian …


The Cakes of Japan

One of the attractions of coming back to Japan is the renewed opportunities to try some of the weird and wonderful cakes that are available. So this series has been …


A Brief Hiatus

Sorry for the brief pause (and if anybody is waiting for me to reply to emails the same). I’ve now moved to Osaka and have been quite busy sorting things …


Sunday Pudding

At the request of my mum I made Tiramisu (an old favourite). This will be my last Sunday pudding for a while.


WHW – Tyndrum to Glencoe (17 miles)

I didn’t sleep very well at Tyndrum. The camp site was poorly set out. “Hiker huts” were set right next to the camping pitches with picnic tables between them. Sadly …


WHW – Glencoe to Kinlochleven (10.5 miles)

One of the things I find about toilets is that if I walk into a gents and there are no urinals, I immediately think I might have walked into the …


Departures

I’ll be leaving for Osaka next Saturday. It’s all been a bit last minute as I only got the visa paperwork back on Friday. I have to go and get …


WHW – Inverarnan to Tyndrum (12 miles)

As the previous day was quite long and tiring I had a bit of a lie in. Sadly the camp shop didn’t have any porridge (in Scotland!) so I had …