We’re off to see Bruce Springsteen in Munich and spent a couple of pleasant days in Paris on the way staying quite near to the Bastille in the Marais district. We did a walking tour of the Marais which was very interesting.  Lots of jewish restaurants so we had an excellent fallaffel lunch at L’As…

Here it is – and it was very tasty too by golly.

Due to an administrative error we are out of oil for our boiler, which means no heating and no hot water until Monday morning when the fuel man can come. I can’t help feeling it’s partly my fault! Anyway we decided to head somewhere for the weekend and Quiberon sounded nice. It’s a seaside resort…

It was great to get to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport after 12 hours on Air France from Tokyo. I did manage to watch the latest James Bond, Arnie and Bruce Willis movies and the food and drinks were very good but it’s a long time. We stayed at the Ibis hotel at the airport…

We had a really interesting couple of days firstly on a guided tour of the historic Kagurazaka district in Tokyo where some geishas live and train and the next day a bus trip to Mount Fuji and back on the bullet train. Off to France tomorrow but we really have had an interesting and enjoyable…

Yesterday we went to Calico Cat café in Shinjuku and also the Shinjuku gardens, here’s some pictures: And that last one was Pauline s dinner the first night. Nice weather here in Tokyo, hope it’s nice back home too.