Don't cry mate.

May 7th 2006
My last full day in Tokyo, and it just so happens to coincide with the opening day of the Grand Sumo Tournament in Ryogoku. This is the fifteen day, once a year, ultimate Sumo contest, where fat men wearing nappies slap and push each other until someone falls over. It was extremely entertaining. I sat there for a solid five hours and wasn't bored for a moment. You get a full days line up of fighti ... read more

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more

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Whatever I wanted to say here about travel has probably already been said more eloquently by someone else... A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ~Mark Twain The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to se... full info

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