I found a shop that sells Chilean red wine. At £3.50, bring it on!!
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Lambs to the Slaughter
(Veggie and Vegan advisory: contains meat lyrics) We stopped off at a small town to buy some groceries and something for the barbecue. Even though the Mongolian staple diet is meat, potatoes, milk and flour we’ve found it hard to buy meat in the small countryside shops. What meat they all have though is salami […]
Litter Bugs
There is a really bad litter problem in Eastern Russia and Mongolia. Even in the most beautiful riverside and lake locations there are countless empty vodka bottles, plastic water bottles, millions of cigarette butts and general litter blanketing the ground. (Two litre bottles of Coca-cola seem to be the main suspect.) It’s widespread, utterly depressing […]
Toilet Yoga
Right let’s put this into perspective first. Japan is the KING of toilets. They make a noise to cover up any untoward noises; they have heated seats; they can wash front and back bottom areas with various modes of spray; they release deodoriser and they flush as you arise…..they no doubt do even more marvellous […]
Death to all Mosquitoes
Six tried and tested methods of execution: #1 Mr Miyagi – (1984 Karate Kid) – when it looks like you are only grabbing handfuls of thin air, but, as you uncoil your hand, you have actually caught a mosquito in mid flight and crushed it to death in one swift movement. This method is no […]
Japan in 20, 10, 5
At school I sometimes do an exercise with the children where you recount a story or an experience in 20 words or phrases and then you have to reduce that from 20 to 10, and then finally whittle it down to only 5 words/phrases that sum up the story/experience. You have to be quick and […]
An Ode to Japan (updated)
So our time in Japan is nearly at an end. After 5 years living in Tokyo we are moving on to the next chapter. I have LOVED living here. As an expat/foreigner/gaijin/immigrant – Tokyo offers so much. I felt it was now time to put my musings about my time in Japan into some written […]
Fromeward Bound goes public
Nestled in-between news about the hospital car park and a local slurry leak, Frome Times have written a lovely little article about us. Read the article at the Frome Times site. Thank you!
Fromeward Bound cards!
In true Japanese style we got some (slightly tounge-in-cheek) meishi made up to hand out to folk we meet along the way. This’ll be a lot easier than trying to find a pen and paper if someone wants our details. It’s also comforting to know that we’ve never had a business card for work…..the first time we […]
New logo!!
Today we switched on our new logo! This amazing piece of artwork was made for us by our very kind friend, Jamie. Not only does it look spot on but, amazingly, Jamie’s managed to slim me down by about 15kg. Thank you Jamie-san!