Location for post-Half Man Half Biscuit beverages.
All your favourite songs, plus a throwaway line from Nigel Blackwell that made me laugh harder than anything else this year. "You've got to be careful what you say at that place... PC World..."
London Film Festival closing gala,
Babel, at the Odeon Leicester Square.
Astonishing fact: in Germany, Spongebob Squarepants is known by the somewhat more prosaic name of Spongebob Spongehead.
Just in case you didn't believe me about the wonderfulness of the Wakamatsu Honten - the first picture is our room, the second is our dinner (note The BBG at the top of the dinner photo for scale purposes).
More of a megatemple, really, with enormous grounds you could easily get lost in. It's just over the road from the Wakamatsu Honten - I took picture 1 from the window of our room. All other pictures by The BBG.
This cheeky little chap is the symbol for Japan Rail's equivalent of the Oyster card - a smartcard that can be used to pay for travel, and is also accepted in a variety of shops. I just think he's cute.
On a train somewhere between Toya and Ueno.
