My Smith’s School of English Franchise in Kotoen exists in an area filled with established, influential families. One such influential person is a student at my school and he regularly invites me out for coffee or yakitori, usually stronger stuff. Actually we are both into Scotch! On this particular occasion he was hosting the very last […]
Fireworks Festival Report: Uji-gawa Aug 10
Well, I gotta say, we have never, ever seen a crowd like this. Well, we all have at Yodogawa, but for a much smaller, highly concentrated area, it was a throng. And totally worth it, as it is every year we are able to make it. Uji is normally on a weeknight, always set for the […]
The Kobe Minato Hanabi Taikai on Aug 4
Here we are with the first report of our Kansai fireworks festivals. It was by no means the first festival my wife and I have gone to – in fact it was already our fourth. And we arranged a get together of four others who had until this night been extremely apprehensive about battling the throng. […]
