Actually I really do have good intentions but by the time I’ve done a days work It’s hard to get going and get motivated, to be honest sometimes I just can’t be bothered. It’s so easy once you get home just to chill out watch a film or go for a beer, anything for that matter that dosen’t involve anymore typing, the next days work comes around too quick as it is.
Anyway I’m just going to do a post for the whole of May and then for the whole of June to see if I can get up to date, that is if I can remember what I did in May and June.
Like I say things have shot past can hardly believe I’ve been here over a year now, an things are just sort of blending into each other. These two entries will be a lot of photos that is if I can figure out what photos are and where I put them.
So what did I do in May, can’t remember so got to go an look at photos see if the refreshes my memory.
Just been looking at the photos don’t think I did that much in May apart from the usual, work, eat and sleep.
Think I’ve mentioned it before but we always stop at the 7/11 on a morning to get some breakfast some sarnies or something like that. Anyway the owner’s always asking us to go out with him, he likes talking to Westerners practicing his English he also real friendly and want to show off bits of Japan to us. Arie san, call him that cos that’s his name had asked lots of times before and we’d never been, it’s not that we didn’t want to it’s just when you’re working six days a week it’s always tempting not to do anything on the seventh apart from go to church, Yeh right.
So anyway this time me and one of the German guys Mike went out with him, Arie took us to a local Winery called Coco Farm and Winery http://www.cocowine.com/english/harvest.html for a spot of wine tasting and something to eat. Unfortunately didn’t take any photos while I was there, left the camera in the car.
I did take some on the way though, we stopped at a service station, actually it was more of a self service station, coffee and tea was all out of vending machines so was the chips and hot dogs. Now I don’t know a lot about vending machines but if you ask me these were the up market type. Cot to say the coffee was good, the machine even played a little video of the coffee making process while you waited. I’d never seen a fries and hot dog machine before so I was well impressed, and they were good not soggy or anything just as if they were freshly made by a little man in the back of the thing.So after that it was on to the winery for the wine tasting, now neither me or Mike knew much about wine, but it tasted ok and it had alcohol in it, poor old Arie san couldn’t have any as he was driving, ah well rather him then me. Actually me and Mike had both been out the night before
and were a little hung over to say the least, we couldn’t be seen to falter and let the side down even though alcohols was probably the last thing we wanted at 1pm when we’d not got home till about 4am that morning, we managed it though. Next thing it was lunch and another bottle of wine, water for Arie, we were feeling better by this time so the meal and the wine went down really well and as we didn’t pay that was even better.So that was the wine tasting out of the way now we though he would just take us back home but he had other ideas, first he took us round his older sisters to introduce us to her. She was really nice and gave us green tea and some little gifts, a fan and a toothpick holder with tooth picks I might add, nothing big just a little tokens but it was real nice. I mean have you been round someone’s house out of the blue before, someone you didn’t know and who couldn’t speak your language who gave you a gift I mean wow, she just disappeared into the kitchen and got them. I’m mean we’d just turned up out of the blue no one knew we were coming. She then got out the map and asked us where we came from and which country’s we’d been to, Arie translated as she couldn’t speak a work of English but we got there in the end.
So we were back in the car now we really thought we’re off home, but not this time he took us to his house which was about an hours drive away and showed us round it. His wife wasn’t there which was probably just as well for him because it was a bit messy and she’d probably have been pissed, not at us but at him for bringing strangers round when it was messy.
Arie then wanted to take u
s for a meal, I mean we’d only eaten about three hours ago but he insisted he wanted to take us for horse meat, he said he knew a really good restaurant that specialised in horse meat. So off we go in the car again, but it was shut so plan B was to take us to a little Sushi type place, for beer, Sake and Suchi, not necessarily in that order.Check out the photos we had some kind of deep fried fish which he called devil fish, plus other assorted bits of Sushi and some Yakitori which is usually meat an a ske
wer bit like a kebab. Old 
Arie san was to drunk by this time to drive us or 
himself home, actually there is no drinking alcohol at all if you drive in Japan, so he was going to get what they call a Daiko.A Daiko is basically a taxi service, a small car with two people come to get you where you are, one of the guys takes you home in their car while the other one drives your car home, pretty neat hey,
I’ve seen it when the guy usually pretty drunk just tosses his car keys to the Daiko guys who go off to find his car then come back pick him up and off they go, I mean it works there are literally thousand of them here.
Wonder if many cars would go missing in the UK if they had this service there, think I know the answer, it’s not a problem here though. I can see it now especially in a big city back home, two strangers come to pick up some drunk guy who gives then his car keys, would probably seem like Christmas to them.
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