Jul 9, 20225 min read
Hell Courtesan 地獄 の使者
2022年7月9日 Good Morning (Good Evening) おはよう（こんばんは) 😉 Tuesday : Dietzenbach. I was regretting arriving in shorts, T-Shirt and sandals....
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Jun 30, 20226 min read
Close Harmony 🎵 緊密な調和 Kinmitsuna chōwa
Welcome back to my weekly blog. Welcome back to reporting from a hot Hessen summer... ようこそ! As I wrote last week, the recent heatwave...
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Jun 23, 20224 min read
Heat 暑さ💦
It was Ema ちゃんの誕生日, It was 6-yr.old Ema's birthday party, and I had been invited. Now you don't just not turn up to a little girl's...
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Jun 16, 20224 min read
June in Germany 六月のドイツ”
2022年6月16日 This is serious. There is no coffee coming out of the espresso machine. And it is Monday morning. Hello brain! What about...
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Jun 10, 20227 min read
They Say Nothing Stays The Same "Aru sendo no hanashi"
2022年6月10日 No it doesn't - especially in London. When I was there last week I noticed things - card payments are more common than in...
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Jun 5, 20225 min read
The Sun, that rises in the East 東に昇る太陽
2022年6月5 .....also rises over London. Sailing セーリング I am sitting on a bench next to the tiller as Rachel steers her yacht out into the...
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Jun 2, 20223 min read
An unusual woman 珍しい女の人
2022年5月29日 Four years ago, in May 2018, I was in the city of Matsumoto, which is in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. I had borrowed a...
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May 28, 20226 min read
Mendelssohn, Isolation and the Home Country メンデルスゾーン,鎖国と母国
2022年5月29日 When I was a child,子供の時, one of the highlights of the school choir year was to sing in a big concert. To us they were huge...
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May 13, 20224 min read
Have You Ever Rung Someone when....聞こえる?
2022年5月13日 "oh hello!"..................(In your ears there is a crash 💥 which sounds like a knight in armour has just fallen into the...
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May 5, 20224 min read
Civilization (Part 3) 文明ー第3章
It's been 3 posts in rapid succession 🏁🏃♂️ つぎつぎと 投稿 ........... 2022年5月5日🎏 "Fields of Barley" Mr. Sting?..........I suppose "tulips"...
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May 3, 20223 min read
Civilization (Part 2) 文明ー第２章
2022年5月3日 Well, here she is: The Girl with the Pearl Earring. Of course she doesn't get quite so many people looking at her as the girl...
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Apr 30, 20225 min read
Civilization (Part 1) 文明ー第１章
2022年4月30日 Sometimes learning a foreign language can pose some BIG questions. My innocent textbook (with a view to jogging my brain for...
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Apr 19, 20227 min read
Unexpected 意外
2022年4月19日 Unexpected things happened this week. For example, on Good Friday I found myself in the Fahrgasse in Frankfurt. Well, you may...
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Apr 12, 20224 min read
Sequoia Giganteum ジャイアントレッドウッド
2022年4月12日 Sequoia Giganteum. What a name! What a tree! I was always fascinated by it, The giant Redwood of California. I think there was...
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Apr 5, 20225 min read
Iced cherry blossom 花冷え
2022年4月5日 Good Morning, Guten Morgen, おはようございます! Welcome to the first post of April. This picture of a local lake could almost be a...
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Mar 29, 20223 min read
Lift the gloom 暗いトンネルを 抜けだそう！
2022年4月1日 I don't watch television. Well, in fact I haven't even got one. They are too black when they are not switched on - like having...
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Mar 22, 20223 min read
Low Water 低水位
2022年3月22日 I parked the old Audi at the still-deserted carpark and walked down to the river. The Audi is a relic from the fossil fuel age...
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Mar 16, 20224 min read
I started this blog in January 私は1月にこのブログを始めました
2022年3月16日 I started this blog in January. A blog which was meant to be about culture, daily life in Germany, with the occasional nod to...
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Mar 9, 20223 min read
More Geese than Swans.......世の中には、 賢明 な人々よりも 多くの愚か者がいる
2022年3月9日 Nobody knows who wrote the text. Maybe it was Sir Christopher Hatton, whose London house the composer used when composing. At...
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Mar 2, 20223 min read
I never thought I would be doing this....私はこれをやろうとは思っていませんでした.....2nd March 2022
2022年3月2日 When I set out to write this week's blog it was all going to be beautiful nature photographs and the promise of spring 春 . Not...
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