Wednesday October 8, 2008Paro and Thimpu, Bhutan: Temperature Sunny but with a little cloudsGangtey Palace Hotel in ParoDruk Hotel in Thimpu After a long and wonderful sleep it was time for our second day of activities. After a simple breakfast of porridge, delicious tea and toast with the creamiest butter, freshest marmalade and local honey,Continue reading “Day 3: Travels to a Himalayan Kingdom – Bhutan”
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Day 2:Travels to a Himalayan Mountain Kingdom – Bhutan
Day 2Tuesday October 7, 2008Paro, Bhutan: Temperature GloriousGangtey Palace Hotel The day started VERY early where we had to get up at 1am to get ready for our 2am taxi ride to BKK to catch or 435am Druk Air Flight 121 to Paro Bhutan via Calcutta. I did not realize the plane was making aContinue reading “Day 2:Travels to a Himalayan Mountain Kingdom – Bhutan”
Travels to a Himalayan Mountain Kingdom: Bhutan
Day One:Monday October 6, 2008 Bangkok, Thailand, Temperature: HOT AND HUMID!Hotel: Westin Grande Sukhumvit Well, after over a year of planning the time has finally arrived where I’m starting my dream vacation – 17 days in Bhutan. I’ve never taken this much time off work but am so looking forward to it. I’ve been veryContinue reading “Travels to a Himalayan Mountain Kingdom: Bhutan”
Saturday October 4 2008 Tokyo
SANMA I woke up early to a perfect day. The weather was glorious and I felt rested as I was sound asleep by 9pm last night! After taking a long walk with Skipper, I decided to walk to the Tsukiji Fish market to get some Sanma to make tonite. Sanma is a type of mackerel,Continue reading “Saturday October 4 2008 Tokyo”
Friday October 3, 2008 Tokyo
Ramen and the Art of SlurpingA friend of mine called and wanted to try the fancy Ramen place in Ometesando that I have been raving about. We decided to meet there for an early dinner. How do you best describe Ramen? Basically its a soup noodle dish. I describe it as Japanese style Chinese noodles. Continue reading “Friday October 3, 2008 Tokyo”
Weekend in Tokyo: September 26-28, 2008
Friday, September 26Party at Miyakawa-san's house I skipped my bread making class again this week as I was invited to Miyakawa-san's house for dinner. I haven't seen his sweet wife Mami-san in a long time so was looking forward to the dinner. Miyakawa-san also invited Iida-san and his wife and gorgeous 1 year old daughter. Continue reading “Weekend in Tokyo: September 26-28, 2008”
Sorta Long Weekend in Tokyo: Sept.19-23, 2008
Friday September 19, 2008 Normally, I start the weekend with my bread making class but because we had a colleague from UK(Chris) visiting so a couple of the IBM guys and I took him out for dinner and some Japanese drinking instead. It was his first time in Japan but because he was well traveledContinue reading “Sorta Long Weekend in Tokyo: Sept.19-23, 2008”
Weekend in Tokyo: Sept12-15, 2008
Friday September 12, 2008I noticed on Tuesday during my morning walk with Skipper that the streets were quiet… No cicadas singing…..I guess fall in on its way to Tokyo. Fall is my favorite season in Japan where the foliage throughout the country turns into glorious golden and red colors. I can't wait! Also, this weekendContinue reading “Weekend in Tokyo: Sept12-15, 2008”
Weekend in Tokyo: Sept 5-7, 2008
This weekend pretty much is going to be a catching up on sleep, do bills and tidy up some work related matter so not much excitement. However, I did go to one bread making class and had some interesting discussion topics on Japanese culture. Friday Sept. 5, 2008 Bread Making Class I again started theContinue reading “Weekend in Tokyo: Sept 5-7, 2008”
Weekend in Tokyo: August 29-31, 2008
Friday August 29, 2008 Do you ever have one of those periods in your life that things are moving forward as planned but are off balance? Well, my life this week has been like that. I checked my astrological forecast for August by Susan Miller but could not find anything that suggested this would happenContinue reading “Weekend in Tokyo: August 29-31, 2008”