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A Very Sociable Sunday

Posted on 2006/04/10 14:17:40 (April 2006).

[Sunday 9th April]
Spent the daytime wandering around Tokyo again with Chie and Junchan. Like the previous day, had a generally lovely time (and this time without any interludes of right wing campaigners or irrate Americans!).

The first part of our day out involved a visit to "Veggie Fest" - amazingly a small festival of vegetarian food in Japan. As is often the way in this part of the world, there seemed to be some sort of religous underpinning to it all, but unperturbed I munched my way through a number of interesting meat free snacks.

After that, and a bit of a vague wander, we took a tram ride to Sugamo - unofficially known as the "Old People's Harajuku" (Harjuku being a place popular for, er, young people). So it's the old people's young people's place. Go figure. Anyway, it was kind of interesting, I couldn't help but wonder if people who aren't that old go there in order to feel younger, by contrast. I certainly did after an hour or two wandering those streets.

Around 5 or 6 Junchan got on a train back to her hometown of Sendai, and Chie and I headed back to our flat. In the evening Chie's sister and Harukakun (an old university friend of Chie's) came over for dinner, which was very nice - the first time we've had anything resembling a dinner party since moving in.

Comment 1

I think your good lady had the presence of mind to do a second picture of the veggie banner cos the first is back to front John

Posted by Jerry Groome at 2006/04/10 17:14:29.

Comment 2

Loved the idea - but found, like others, that the cthlocaoe ones soon collapsed when taken out of the freezer. HOWEVER - have discovered that you can do the same thing with left-over royal icing. Do the same shapes on to paper & rest in a folded card. No need to put in freezer - just prop the card & leave to air-dry. The icing, once hard, will stay hard . . . . & the butterflys will FLY - terrific idea, thanks.