fish – Tower of Air

Goodbye, Sendai!

My exchange program is complete, so the time has come for me to leave Sendai. To be precise I had scheduled the departure for today, but typhoon “Roke” insisted on traveling the same route in the opposite direction (Tokyo to Sendai), so I’ll have to stay one more night. Nonetheless, it is now time toContinue reading “Goodbye, Sendai!”

Fish, Ice and Chocolate – Seeing Snow, part 3

We didn’t get up as early as planned on this day (see part 1 and part 2 for the days before), but around 8 am we reached Odori park, where we could see people cleaning freshly fallen snow from the sculptures. I missed this sculpture the night before because we didn’t go to the easternContinue reading “Fish, Ice and Chocolate – Seeing Snow, part 3”

Japanese lunch topping

Here’s a photo of today’s lunch. Take a closer look at the topping! 😉 Yes, those are tiny dried fish. It’s probably well know that Japanese food includes a wide range of seafood, and I’m not surprised anymore when I walk through the supermarket and see lots of different kinds of fish and octopus (wholeContinue reading “Japanese lunch topping”