To New Readers,

This blog documents, by way of writings, photos and videos, my ongoing love affair with South Korea. While that tryst continues, I am currently having a fling with Japan as well. Sorry Korea, I'm a two-timer after all.

I'm staying with a friend in Shimizu of the Shizuoka prefecture. What's in Shimizu? There's a bicycle that I rode to the harbour to be surprised by a view of Mt.Fuji in the distance. There's a cat that stalks around the yard with the kumquat tree, persimmon tree, and three other fruit trees that I cannot recall, and it just mews (the cat). There's a restaurant that serves good donkatsu where I ground up some sesame with a small wooden pestle in a small wooden mortar to dump into my donkatsu sauce. There's a dollar store, I mean 100 yen store, that sells some nice fabric tape and my favourite brand of caffeinated gum. There's a smell in the air that reminds me of the apartment below my old one in Toronto. There's a place where I tried on some jeans and spied someone pick up my shoes and turn them around because I had left them facing the wrong way outside my changeroom.

Oh, and before Shimizu I visited Osaka, Kobe, Nara and Kyoto and here are some photos of all that action, but don't worry I'll return to Korea soon enough, and hopefully she won't be too upset with me.























































PS. Thanks to whoever for the klog nomination.