Archive for the ‘holidays’ Category
Andysworld! Advent Calendar - Dec 25 - Merry Christmas
Sunday, December 25th, 2011Andysworld! Advent Calendar - Dec 17 - Festive Treat - Japan Photograph Album Complete! - Online Here
Saturday, December 17th, 2011
A few have been asking for a while, and it’s only taken me 6 months to complete this! But it’s been a fanastic reminder of our Holiday to Japan in March 2011! Some of you will have already seen a few photographs, but this is the first time, I’ve uploaded the entire album (these were the photographs that have made it into the album!).
If you’ve not worked out how to access the Holiday Photograph Album Click the Photo above.
Andysworld! Advent Calendar - Dec 14 - Andysworld! Traditional Norway Spruce Real Christmas Tree
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
All the folk at Andysworld! Wishes you a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011Before the festivities start, all the folk at Andysworld! would just like to wish all the readers of Andysworld! a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
I hope 2012 is a Prosperous one for you all, where ever you may be!
All the Best - Andy, Lindsey, Esther, Angus and Tilly (and many tropical fish!)
Me and Kofuku the Maiko
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Never short of a soft drink or coffee in Japan!
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011More photos from the Japan holiday archive.
Coca-Cola vending machines in Asakusa District, Tokyo, Japan
Calpis, Sapporo and Asahi vending machines in Asakusa District, Tokyo, Japan
In Japan, everywhere on the streets, they have vending machines serving hot and cold drinks from the same machine, from Coca-Cola, coffee, tea, pancake syrup drinks and beer!
So you never short of a drink, anywhere you travel in Japan! (very handy if you have a Coca-Cola addiction!), and the umbrella I’m using was free, people leave them on buses and trains for the next person to pick and use. Now that’s Recycling! Very kind!
and that does say Calpis!
Microsoft Cloud Power in Japan!
Sunday, June 12th, 2011
Andy at Nagoya Castle, Japan (again!)
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Andy at Nagoya Castle, Nagoya, Japan
Lindsey mentioned that people viewing this probably would not have seen the significance on the picture, so here it is again, zoomed in and cut!
and I’ve still not cut the hedge, cut the lawn again, or finished that damn border, it’s been raining….tomorrow (yes tomorrow!) I’ll get round to it!
Andy at Nagoya Castle, Japan
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011As you may or may not know, we had to leave Japan from the Central Japan International Airport, Nagoya and not Narita International Airport, Tokyo because of the earthquake, or because Lufthansa, had decided not to fly from Narita International Airport, Tokyo. So on the penultimate day, we left Tokyo on the bullet train again to Nagoya for one last day and night.
Whilst in Nagoya, we visited Nagoya Castle, and had a very long walk around the Castle Moat, trying to find the entrance, after exiting the tube station! As a taster to the Japan photograhs to come shortly, here’s a photograph that made Lindsey laugh!
Andy at Nagoya Castle, Japan
(I’ve not really be cloned three times! One is bad enough! I asked Lindsey to take three different exposures, and then I’ve overlaid them for the effect!)
Fugu
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011As a fishkeeper, one of the fish I wanted to see in Japan was Fugu. Fugu is is the Japanese word for pufferfish and the dish prepared from it. It’s also called Blowfish. This is a marine pufferfish, unlike most tropical freshwater puffers that are kept in the UK like the Green Pufferish, Tetraodon nigroviridis or Giant freshwater Pufferfish, Tetraodon mbu.
Giant Freshwater Puffer - Tetraodon mbu
Green Pufferfish - Tetraodon nigroviridis
Fugu can be lethally poisonous due to its tetrodotoxin; therefore, it must be carefully prepared to remove toxic parts and to avoid contaminating the meat. The restaurant preparation of fugu is strictly controlled by law in Japan, and the chefs are licensed, and only licensed chefs who have qualified through rigorous training are allowed to deal with the fish. Experienced fugu chefs in the most expensive of restaurants sometimes leave enough poison in the flesh of the fish to give diners a little numbness around the lips!
Here’s a quick clip of a tank full of Fugu destined for the table, that I filmed in a resturant display window in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan (22 March 2011).
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