A Little Piece of England (or Scotland!)

Posted on 2005/12/07 13:34:14 (December 2005).

[Sunday 4th December]
A psychiatrist would probably say I spent the day hiding from the reality that I am living in Japan!

Chie and I went over to Roppongi at the start of the afternoon, to get a Sunday roast at the Hobgoblin pub there. As a slight disappointment there wasn't any kind of vegetarian version of the roast, but they did at least do the ubiqutous pub stable - the vegetable lasagne. It wasn't all that great, which was oddly comforting - it was bad in very similar ways to how vegetable lasagnes are bad back in England. It was washed down with an expensive but very nice pint of decent British ale.

From three in the afternoon onwards I went along to a whisky society tasting at a bar in Roppongi Hills. This was the first time I've properly attended an SMWS event in Japan, and I wasn't disappointed. There was a fantastic selection of society malts there (over 200 apparently), and all very reasonably priced. I had a nice chat with the organiser there, and also a guy from the US who happened to be working in broadcasting (as I still am, vaguely speaking). A great afternoon!

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