Category Archives: Travels

Togolese Djembe Drumming

I was taking a picture of my djembe drum (that I’ve posted in my photo section) which also led me to a Youtube search of Togolese djembe drumming.  I’d kind of forgotten what it sounded like, so it was a pleasant trip down memory lane.

Out and about

Apologies for the lack of posting. The last few days have been thoroughly tiring and today is the first day in a while where I find myself being utterly lazy. It’s a strange, wonderful…and almost guilty feeling. I’m in Hong Kong at the moment, on a “working vacation”. Despite the fact that there’s a typhoon [...]

Useful info when visiting Tokyo

A colleague of mine in the US recently wrote to me asking for tips that he can use when he visits Japan with his family next month.  This is probably the 3rd or 4th time that I’ve done this for friends/colleagues and I suddenly realised that it would make things a whole lot simpler to [...]

A trip to Izu

Sorry for the lack of posting again lately… work has been extremely busy and honestly after spending all day working on or in front of a computer, I don’t always feel like coming back home to sit in front of one again. Today I thought I’d put up some pictures of a one day/night trip [...]

2009 Kusatsu New Year Trip

I decided I wanted to get out of Tokyo for the New Year period – just wanted to get away and clear my head in preparation for 2009.  Happily, I had the time to do so – I had to take 2 days off from work that were going to expire, and that left me [...]

Kusatsu 2009 New Year Trip