You keep what you kill

We took advantage of the brilliant weather in Tokyo and spent a lot of time in the various gardens. There's a ton of them and while a lot of things had already settled down for winter, maple leaves still gave off a beautiful glow in the winter sun. Lovely, they definitely know how to do gardens. And they know how to do clean, clean and big city, Berlin, you hear me? Probably not, because Berlin never listens, just wallows in its own filth. We also spotted tree huggers but at least there was no obvious sexual thing going on this time between hippie and tree. Besides gardens, architecture, food, and clean, the Japanese definitely know how to do trains. Hell yeah. We took the Shinkansen to Kyoto and back. What a blast. Superfast. Superclean. Superquiet. Superpunctual. Superspacious. Super, super, super. Also the train stations, supertrainstations. Kyoto station, beautiful architecture and everything is superwellsignposted supereverywhere. I'm in love.  😍 And a bit sad at the sa

Believe it or not, flying First seems to be the best means to counter jetlag I've found so far. A shame that I can't afford it usually. But where do I start? BA managed not to mess up my flight this time. That alone is a small miracle. And the cabin crew was very friendly, also not always the case. I liked the New First on the Dreamliner, the food was also very good. But they damaged our suitcase this time, looks like this airline is simply incapable of getting the job done properly from end to end. Anyway, we got to NRT on Wednesday morning, took the train into Tokyo and then headed to our hotel in Tokyo Bay on the scenic monorail across the Rainbow Bridge. It's end of December, sunny, 17 degrees. Crazy, that's the upside of climate change, I guess. ☺ I won't complain, the weather couldn't have been better, very warm and sunny, we had a great time exploring some of the gardens and streets. Compared to my last visit many thousand years ago I was almost disappoi