April 25th 2025年4月25日 As you can see below, the city of Nagoya has a very convenient circular metro line . Easy-peasy. Like in Tokyo...

18th April 2025年4月18日 Be prepared for the unexpected. This is one of my mottos when in Japan. Is it the unexpected convenience of power...

12th April 2025 Sendai is about 360 km north of Tokyo - that's about 2 1/2 hours with the Tohoku Shinkansen (bullet train). First, I...

7th April 2025 年4月7日 There is an expression here (in Germany)..... "mir  fällt die Decke auf den Kopf " (lit. The roof is falling on my...

31st March 2025 年3月31日 New Ross - a small Irish town in County Wexford on the river Barrow. It's 1985, and a local coal merchant makes an...

22nd March 2025年3月22日 There I am, chatting to some fellow singers after a long choir practice. We are standing on the nondescript...

14th March 2025 年3月14日 You know the way crispbread often has a smooth side and a side full of holes - all bumpy- like? When I was a...

5th March 2025 年3月5日 (Some of you had a problem with the link to this post. sorry about that. It seems browsers don't like it when I mix...

February 24th 2025 年2月24日 "...... Welcome aboard the Southern Service 🚆 to Haywards Heath, calling at Clapham Junction, East Croydon,...

9th February 2025 年2月9日 (".....today.........in .....Germany .......very ......cold.......it is !....") Oh dear, this is far too slow....

2nd February 2025年2月2日 Hope is in the air.... きたい Hello, look who's landed .......like Hedwig, Harry Potter's owl. Though in this case I...

22nd January 2025 年1月25日 I recently dug out my wristwatch. Put a battery into it. Now I can just glance at it if I want to know the...

January 12th 2025 年1月12日 She must have heard me muttering over my shopping list...... "tomatoes, milk, apples....oh yes, tissues...."...

Yes. It's true. On a cold January morning in 2022 I set up this blog - The View from the Towers..... .and started writing..... The Towers...

December 2024 年12月 There is something about bad taste that makes me stop and wonder....("...how could you possibly.....?"). Sometimes you...

December 1st 2024年12月1日 I have been wondering about this sign ever since last year, when I literally walked over it in the town of Miyako...

November 2024 年11月 Hot off the press from the exciting town of Langen....... I'm walking through the town and this lorry stops right in...

November 8th 2024年11月8日 High up on one of my towers is a weather vane - a Kazamidori かざみどり - what a lovely word !......Once I saw a...

November 2024 11月 ハロウィン Yes, it's that time of year again - Hallowe'en - All Saints Eve, the evening before November 1st, when in the...

October 2024 年10月 It's disgraceful. Nigel hasn't posted a picture of me for at least 3 or four posts. I am important. For I am a cat, and...