Took several shots I’m rather proud of at the Kinkaku-ji, or Golden Pavillion, so thought I’d show one off here. 
Managed to finish these just before I need to leave for the airport. Second half of Japan trip was in Toba, a fishing village best known for Mikimoto Pearls. We started out by attending Taiko (Drum) practice, as only a month was left before the big festival!
Close-up on Sa-Chan’s Hands
I even got to try my hand at it after rehearsal.
Been home for nine days, and it’s time to hit the airports again. Off to Singapore for ten days tonite. Dirty socks and warm spit. Princess not amused, nor am I. We’ve been trying to cram in as much us-time as we can but I’m not a huge believer in quality-time over quantity-time. We did manage to spend an evening at Shanghai Jazz, and weirdly enough, it was the exact same band as our very first visit.
It was a different experience tho, because we have since returned many time, celebrated our wedding there and know the owners and bar-tender well. In fact, the Princess spent a part of the evening poring over distributors’ wine lists for them and may be going back for tastings next time they update their wine list.
Me?
I just enjoyed Alison Kalaher’s singing, Arturo’s guitar, my martinis and the Beijing Duck. It’s my cross to bear…
Slowly putting up the Japan Trip pictures on Flickr in this set:
I’ll keep adding to it, I’m only roughly up to where the blog left off. Will also add some of my favourites here.
… and going to Toba, a little fishing village where my guide spent a few years learning Japanese.
Internet connections few and far between, there, so it may be a while until the next update.
