Picnic
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Not being an outdoor kinda guy I was just a little apprehensive about going on a picnic with some other residents here at the dorm in the wilds just outside of our part of Nagasaki. The climb was steep (lotsa hills here..) but the view was definitely rewarding. Visiting the great outdoors basically means visiting other living beings their habitat. After the plaid was layed down, the food (Vietnamese springrolls, Japanese nigiri rolls and fresh strawberries) and drink was put out ready for consumption the the little buggers just appeared out of nowhere and started nibbling away at the intruders. Alex got bitten severely. But we just didn't care and were determined not let a minor hindrance interfer with our pleasure. The food was great and a good time was had by all.
Visited a christian graveyard afterwards on top of a hill to enjoy the view over Nagasaki.
Decided to have dinner at room 501 and so Chinese dumplings, left over chili-con-carne and curry were enjoyed by everybody. Since Alex and I had to do a power point presentation the next day about Amsterdam we decided to do a try-out right there and then. The red light district, koto no chimata 紅灯の巷 as it is called in Japanese , coffeeshops and Gay pride plus a bit af Culture (van Gogh and Rembrandt) was duly addressed. The audience loved it........
Gijsbertus Willem was delivered into this world on the 21st May by his proud parents Maartje Craemer and Michiel van Klingeren. Congratulations !
Being here in Japan I missed out on the Eurovision Song contest and the party held in honour of it at Ton & Diek's place last Saturday evening. Holland didn't participate apparently (no news here in Japan about this event) and according to Paul a horrid "Hard Rock" song from Finland won.
Well apart from dried reindeer meat, watching to many SciFi movies from the looks of it (picture of the band Lordi on the right) and a high suicide rate there isn't a lot else going on so they really needed a break.
Good luck to you I say!
Not being an outdoor kinda guy I was just a little apprehensive about going on a picnic with some other residents here at the dorm in the wilds just outside of our part of Nagasaki. The climb was steep (lotsa hills here..) but the view was definitely rewarding. Visiting the great outdoors basically means visiting other living beings their habitat. After the plaid was layed down, the food (Vietnamese springrolls, Japanese nigiri rolls and fresh strawberries) and drink was put out ready for consumption the the little buggers just appeared out of nowhere and started nibbling away at the intruders. Alex got bitten severely. But we just didn't care and were determined not let a minor hindrance interfer with our pleasure. The food was great and a good time was had by all.Visited a christian graveyard afterwards on top of a hill to enjoy the view over Nagasaki.
Decided to have dinner at room 501 and so Chinese dumplings, left over chili-con-carne and curry were enjoyed by everybody. Since Alex and I had to do a power point presentation the next day about Amsterdam we decided to do a try-out right there and then. The red light district, koto no chimata 紅灯の巷 as it is called in Japanese , coffeeshops and Gay pride plus a bit af Culture (van Gogh and Rembrandt) was duly addressed. The audience loved it........
Gijsbertus Willem was delivered into this world on the 21st May by his proud parents Maartje Craemer and Michiel van Klingeren. Congratulations !
Being here in Japan I missed out on the Eurovision Song contest and the party held in honour of it at Ton & Diek's place last Saturday evening. Holland didn't participate apparently (no news here in Japan about this event) and according to Paul a horrid "Hard Rock" song from Finland won.
Well apart from dried reindeer meat, watching to many SciFi movies from the looks of it (picture of the band Lordi on the right) and a high suicide rate there isn't a lot else going on so they really needed a break.Good luck to you I say!
posted by 狩人 (Hunter in Japanese) @ 5/22/2006 03:18:00 pm
1 Comments:
At 8:20 pm,
Anonymous said…
Eurovision!! You missed nothing. It was like a scene from Lord of the Rings. Orcs everywhere. Whatever happend to the days of "Boom Bang a Bang", "Puppet on a String", "99 Red Balloons" (I leave the german translation to you) "Save your kisses for me" and "Making your Mind up" All remembered fondly. And of course the biggy of all time "Waterloo". To be perfectly honest this year's Eurovision made you nostalgic for war.
I thought you would be the picninc sort - Fortnums Hamper on a power cruiser or course. It's the grass you've got to watch out for. All those nasties hide in ambush in the greenery waiting for some ripe flesh to bite. A bit like the Monopole really.
Another bank holiday coming up. Must do the garden - it has been neglected. With the on-going drought - it has rained every day for the past week and is forecast to continue raining for another 2 weeks - I shall have to choose the plants carefully.
We are all off to see the Da Vinci Code on Friday (Dean, David and I)and although the reviews have not been wonderful I am looking forward to it.
Right I must be off. Take care. Misse you. Chris xxx
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