Month: July 2015

• July 31, 2015

  Nagoya Nights (And days, mostly)

  

  I’m fast settling in to Nagoya, though I don’t have long to explore this interesting city. This weekend I will attempt (probably in vain) to cram as much sightseeing in as possible. I have already been to the area around Nagoya station, but there is plenty more to do. Nagoya isn’t a big destination for […]
• July 28, 2015

  Farewell Tokyo and Hello Nagoya

  

  TL:DR I arrived in Nagoya on Sunday by the bullet train after a fantastic send off at Jikei, and I’m settling into a different pace of life at the molecular pathology lab. I can’t believe it has been over a month since I arrived in Japan. The time has flown by, and just as I […]
• July 25, 2015

  Izu’nt it Lovely

  

  As you may not have gathered from the rather cryptic, and not misspelled, title, I spent last Sunday and Monday on the Izu peninsula staying at a ryokan with my host family. Our journey started at Tokyo station, where we boarded the train bound for Izu. The journey was probably the most interesting train ride I have […]
• July 18, 2015

  A Sleepless Night in Tsukiji

  Sleep is wonderful. Not having sleep is the opposite of wonderful. Not wonderful? No…it’s a lot worse than that. Perhaps I’ve waited so long to write about this particular experience because of how much I wanted to forget the time around it. Sleep deprivation does not make a me a happy person. And keeping a […]
• July 16, 2015

  Weird and Wonderful Food, and Experiences

  

  Weird and Wonderful Food and Drink I was complemented on my curry udon eating technique today because of the lack of curry sauce on my white coat – little did they know I spilled it on my trousers instead. Curry udon consists of udon (duh), which are thick wheat noodles, in a curry sauce with […]
• July 14, 2015

  A Late Japan Update – Rain, Cats, Exhaustion

  I don’t even know where to begin with this one. So much has happened since I last wrote on here, and an entire week disappeared in a flash. I have been doing a lot of sightseeing during the weekends and a little during the week where I can manage it. First off, I explored the […]
• July 8, 2015

  Tokyo Nights

  

  I’m slowly catching up, but still way behind with my Tokyo activities. Apologies if there are horrendous spelling and grammar mistakes, but it’s hard enough to draft a post on this thing let alone do any quality control. Another day of vascular surgery, another wound sutured. I didn’t expect to be so involved, but it […]
• July 5, 2015

  The First Week (Well, almost all of it)

  

  Apologies for the lack of updates, but things have been fairly non-stop since I started in the hospital on Monday. People generally don’t walk very far around these parts, and Katsu insisted I took a taxi on my first day so I wasn’t late, but in the busy morning traffic it proved impossible to hail […]