Oct 214 min read
🍂 秋 Aki (Autumn)
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...
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Oct 127 min read
🐭 Micky Mouse ミッキーマウス
October 2024年10月 Many years ago we were on a family holiday in Yorkshire, that beautifully hilly county in the UK. We had decided to go...
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Aug 313 min read
🎻 Beethoven ベートーヴェン
End of August 2024 年8月末 Poor old violin. You've seen a lot haven't you? You were very likely knocking around in some orchestra when...
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Aug 235 min read
Festival 祭り
August 8月 We start this week with a dragonfly. Well, actually, the simple logo on a ball point pen. It was my prize for taking part in a...
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Aug 158 min read
🌞 England 英国
( n.b. Only countries with a historical significance to Japan have their own kanji character ) 2024年8月15日 "Expat blog for hiking, music;...
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Aug 76 min read
🕺Turn on the tap タップ
2024年8月7日 The conversation went something like this: Me: "....so when you were in Wiesbaden, did you visit the hot springs?....."...
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Jul 257 min read
💦 Hot days in Japan 暑い日
Late July - ７月 So what do you do when the midday temperature is hitting 35°c and going out the front door is like going into a huge...
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Jul 195 min read
🧭 East of Tokyo 東京東部
2024年7月19日 Now I don't mind admitting it: I'm pretty hopeless at Kanji - those Chinese characters used in Japanese. But there is one...
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Jul 145 min read
Bicycles, Bananas and a 'Cello 自転車、バナナ、そしてチェロ
2024年7月14日 I walked over the footbridge near Langen station the other day, and saw this: the latest stretch of the Darmstadt - Frankfurt...
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Jul 64 min read
🌍 Scattered...散り散り
2024年7月6日 Quick! Get out of the house before the game ends. Because when it does, the streets of Langen will be filled with the sounds of...
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Jun 295 min read
🪽 Duo Seraphim....二人の天使
2024年6月29日 It must be the time of year. My hiking colleagues have scattered to the four corners of the world...the furthest away would...
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Jun 215 min read
Sand 砂
2024年6月23日 Hey, just a minute............. I thought I ordered sandpaper........not sand.....😮 ちょっと待って、サンドペーパーを注文したと思ったんだけど…砂じゃなかった But...
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Jun 144 min read
🫤 NNS
2024年6月14日 There used to be a family in-joke when I was a child. It was when we were were looking at holiday photos. It was just one...
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Jun 86 min read
Beautiful Germany 美しいドイツ (3)
2024年 6月 8日 I briefly mentioned the Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe and the famous Rosenhöhe in my blog last week. The Rosenhöhe (lit. the hill...
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Jun 16 min read
Beautiful Germany 美しいドイツ (2)
2024 年 6 月 2 日 It's Sunday morning and I am determined to avoid the motorway roadworks whilst driving back from Nuremberg. Cutting across...
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May 264 min read
Beautiful Germany 美しいドイツ
2024 年 5 月 26 日 Look at number 55......... 55番を見てください…… Rauschpfeife.......What a funny name for an organ stop. At first sight I thought...
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May 196 min read
🗡️ The Invitation 招待
2024 年 5月 19日 English is not a phoenetic language, I am told. Ok. So let's try this: Yesterday I was in the Langen woods. The beech trees...
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May 124 min read
Sanxingdui ....
2024 年 5 月 11 日 Now what have we here......? Tea? No, the tin is too heavy. My visitors from Beijing have left me to discover what this...
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May 55 min read
Power, Sex and Self-interest 権力、セックス、そして私利私欲
2024 年 5 月 4 日 Georg Friederic Händel recognized a good story when he saw one - a story with power, sex and self-interest. And he knew...
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Apr 276 min read
Alter Opa おじいちゃん
2024 年 4 月 27 日 👉 Put headphones on 🎧 ヘッドフォンをつけてください Why was the swan silver? I have no idea. In my experience swans are either white...
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