Exactly a year ago I was in Japan. I visited some amazing places, saw some amazing sights and took a ridiculous number of pictures. I managed to edit them down to 358 at the time, but that's rather more than most sane people were willing to look at (although bonus points for those who humoured me). Anyway, a year on, here's some of my favourite pictures and memories from my trip to another world.
My first day in Tokyo - tourists taking pictures of cats sitting in a cherry tree in Ueno Park. I knew I had arrived in Japan.
Gardens next to Ginza
Shinto Wedding at Meiji Shrine
Hasedera Temple - the hundreds of tiny statues are placed by parents mourning lost children
Hakone Open Air Museum - like Yorkshire Sculpture Park but better
Wise advice
View of Mount Fuji from the shinkensen (bullet train)
Apprentice Geisha - happy to pose for pictures
Cat cafe - definitely the strangest experience of my time in Japan, not least because sadomasochistic Japanese cats seem to prefer being slapped to stroked
Children's Peace Monument, Hiroshima. The statue features, Sadoko, who died from radiation poisoning following the atomic bomb, together with a crane representing the thousands of cranes she and others folded to call for peace
Style spotting in Harajuku
(I miss the) Tokyo skyline...
Music shopping - I bought the new album by The London Suede
Bowie cafe in the Sony building
Feeling a bit of out of place (like Bill Murray) in the New York Bar, Park Hyatt Hotel
The cherry blossom came early for me
If you still want more, the full collection is on flickr!
Sunday, 23 March 2014
Monday, 20 January 2014
Blue Monday Blues
So yes, I know this 'Blue Monday' thing is a load of gubbins (although being woken at 3am by my carbon monoxide alarm, loudly demanding I change its batteries, I did start to wonder), but... I do like the blue-hued photo series I took many moons ago. And I also like quite a lot of songs which feature the word blue. So I decided there was a blog post in that... Let's face it, that's as much of a good reason for it to be Blue Monday as anyone else has come up with.
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