Tagged: Japan
Recipe: Tiramisu in Japan – an experiment
Yesterday we had visitors, so I decided to try out Tiramisu. Now, normally Tiramisu is made with Mascarpone, a rare beast in Japan, especially in Ishikawa (hint: if someone knows a place where to...
沢登 桧谷 九頭竜川水系打波川
先週末また沢になった：福井県の桧谷。金曜日の大雨でちょっと水量の心配と朝の雨なのに、５時半に出発し、白峰用福井県に入って、１７３号の県道の一番奥までの駐車場に７時半位に着いた。着いた時、まだ雨が降っていた。どうする？
End of three years in Magae
Today I have returned the key to my flat in Magae. Three years, since August 2010, I have been living there. I really got to like the neighborhood, the view onto the school, the...
Canyoning in Kurobe
Canyoning – very popular in Europe, not very known in Japan. While I have been climbing up rivers quite some time (see these blog entries), last weekend I had the first time the chance...
Tateyama in summer
I have been climbing Tateyama already many times, but always in the snow season. So when last weekend it finally climbed up there for the first time during peak season, actually on the Obon-weekend...
Japanese politics
Fukushima is back, contaminated water is released into the sea. Let us use this opportunity to discuss a bit Japanese politics. It fits quite well with the 68th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. Being...
沢登り ワ谷 奥医王山
８月なのに、低い山の沢を登ってきた。虫が多くて、特にアブもいっぱいの時沢に入らない方がいいかな〜と疑問したのに、結局すごくいい沢を登って、あまり虫がなくて、とても面白い一日になった。
Kobo Abe – The Face of Another
I just finished another book of Kobo Abe (安部公房), called “The Face of Another” (他人の顔). It is the story of a person whose face got severely damaged in an accident, and who builds a...
Reading Japanese: Kindle Paperwhite versus Kobo Glo
There are already a lot of articles out there in the net comparing the two devices. Having quite similar specs I found that the reading experience with both units is very similar, as long...
Being gaijin in Japan
Today something strange happened: for the first time in more than 3 years I have been here in Japan I was treated not like a Gaijin that wants to rob, steal, or cheat, but...
ハイキング 御在所岳
今週末は沢登じゃなくて、クライミングもじゃなくて、今回はハイキングに行ってきた。予定は新潟県だったけど、天気予報は悪くて、三重県の御在所になった。僕達が５人で土曜日の午後出発し、滋賀県から鈴鹿スカイライン（４７７号）を走って、山道入口の近くにある道の駅・公園でテントをはった。
River climbing Dainichi-sawa
Another hot weekend, another sawa (river) to climb. This time it is the Dainichi-sawa 大日沢 in Ishikawa. Sawa-nobori, or river climbing, is a sport practiced mostly in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. In Europe and...
