the Land of Bob

I like to think that the noise crickets make is each of them shouting to the others to shut up. It's therefore not worth me adding to the racket by joining their cries. I shall just have to learn to sleep through it.

My iPod offers a nice alternative to the din of crickets trying to out do one another, especially when walking around Tokyo with said music player on random and the Danger Mouse theme tune comes on. Thank you Paul for contributing this wonderful piece of music to my collection. I'd actually venture that this tune would be great in any major city in the world. (Also, Dan would tell me to replace my ipod with a gigabeat - which I'd be quite tempted with to be fair)

After walking around Tokyo for a while I can recommeding visiting a firework show. Summer in Japan means a whole load of firework shows on the calendar. Each show tends to last a lot longer than those in England and the Tokyo Bay show I tagged on the side of was no exception. It went on for a full 80 minutes with large explosion following large explosion (interspersed with smaller ones of course).

The cheers from the tremendous crowds gathered in Odaiba were what made the whole thing worth while from my perspective, it was like rush hour getting to and from the place with overcrowded trains and monorails, and it was clear from the picnics and many tarpaulins that people had been arriving all day to get their spot marked out for the evenings festivities. Everyone was good natured though despite the "commute" and it was great fun.

I did take some photos of the impressive fireworks but since my tripod is still in the camera shop I'll buy it from, they are all suffering from motion blur. I may still post one anyway though.