A Troy in Tokyo

Hello! The rainy season is well and truly upon us now, with the weather over the next few days looking thusly: Rain, humidity, thunderstorms, and a typhoon. Lovely. This weekend has been a good one, kicked off with meeting a friend at a birthday party at an Irish Bar with many interesting characters present, and then yesterday after work I went to see Claire  perform with her choir, the Tokyo Embassy Choir, as they did a summer concert celebrating the 100th birthday of the composer Leonard Bernstein (of Westside Story fame). Singing a number of his pieces, not limited to Westside Story, it exposed me to music I wouldn't normally listen to, and I had a great time of it! Today has been far more muted, with keeping out of the rain being the main objective (so video games and writing it has been), and I'm not so sure about venturing into a typhoon tomorrow morning to get to university... Last weekend however was a full on cultural extravaganza! Claire had told me about th...

Hello everyone! Got a loosely themed blog for you today - photowalks! So a few weeks ago I decided to go hunting for luxury cars in Ginza on a Saturday night - being one of the glitzy suburbs of Tokyo it was prime hunting ground. Off I went in the evening, having watched the Royal Wedding, camera in hand. I was feeling lucky when as soon as I left the station, a Delorean raced by (but alas I did not yet have the right lens on my camera and missed it completely!). Walking around the streets I looked for Lamborghini, Maserati, Porsche, and the likes, but it seemed I was getting skunked! There was very little to be seen! So instead I reverted to street photography, with one eye on the road just in case something came by. One of the things I like about Ginza, and ritzy places in general, are the impressive window displays in shops that I would feel very out of place in! Regardless though, they know how to make some pretty displays! A series of Niki Saint Phalle handbags by Dior - t...