Japan

Lesley and Caroline were lucky enough to be invited to attend a conference in Japan by colleagues. They flew from Heathrow to Tokyo Haneda airport, taking a bullet train to Kyoto on September 1st. After a week in Kyoto with colleagues from Japan and business associates from the USA, they travelled back to Tokyo - narrowly avoiding a major typhoon.

Traditional craftsman

Making enamelware
Traditional craftsman

Making copperware
Kyoto international Conference Centre

Set I. beautiful park - even the car park is green
Weather-1

It's hot, humid and stickyicky
Tuesday -after work drinks

Hitting a local hostelry with Wang-Mei and Yurika
Kaiseki Restaurant

Muromachi-dori Street. The team take us for an even more amazing meal. This one was 10 courses
Caroline and Lesley

We are ready for our dinner - lunch was on the small side today!
Ordering drinks

Yurika gets the lemon sours in
First course

Yurika explains
Eyeball?

Chopstick challenging - not my favourite
Second course

Cook your own veggies in hot soya milk (streaky bacon optional!)
3rd course

to keep us going while the veggies cook
4th course
5th course

Leek gratin
6th course

Sashimi of course
7th course

Tempura
8th course

Feeling rather full
9th course

Sushi - Yurika tells us when the rice dish arrives, it signals the end of the meal
Dessert

Three desserts - two too many (cheesecake and jelly). Nice matcha sorbet!
Shower-Loo-2

So many buttons!
A storm comingtoday

Six am and heat factor is already 29 degress!