Punch pilgrimage, karaoke and Chiba park at night...

J: Barlow, I know you have asked for us to lay off the bikes, but thats a non starter I'm afraid! A week of adventures started off with a trip to cycle-recycle depot in Icikawa, definitely the find of the day. The guy in the shop was a legend, they had great stuff and it was all really cheap compared to equivalent stores in London like 'blb' .This was the stores own bike tricked out with previously purple rims that had been left in the sun for too long. The frame is a crc depot own brand job, really rather nice to be honest.

We later trekked into Asakusa, which was a pain in the arse to get to, in a vain attempt to enter Punch cycles, a legendary NJS store - Japanese track bikes. Unfortunately the shop was closed, and has very strange opening hours that have defeated us so far. We did however meet a couple of really funny 'mature' people in the tourist information office who seemed more entertained by us than we were by them.

The next big adventure of the week was a birthday celebration in Tsudanuma for Mr Tom Stacey. It started in Sala - a gaijin bar near to the station and then moved onto a karaoke bar, below is a shot of a powerful rendition 'lets get physical'.

M: It should be mentioned at this point that you pay for the booth for an hour, and you can drink unlimited booze in that time and help yourself to whippy ice-cream from the machine outside!

Could explain some of the shots of Jack!

These are some pics i took on May's camera of our local park on the way home from Chiba on Sunday evening, it was quite a misty evening and the pictures came out rather well.

This is a slide that could easily feature in a horror film I think, its part of our local open air pool that has been closed for the winter, come summer time I'm going to own this.