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During this fascinating trip we have visited most of the things that have made Japan famous – Sumo, Sake, shrines – and yesterday I added another “S”: sushi. The Sushi chef is much venerated. In Simon May’s book Atomic Sushi – the reflections on Japan by a professor on [...]

November 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Japanese disaster – viewed from the sofa

So that’s it, then. Another World Cup – rugby’s this time – and “our boys” fall at the Final hurdle again. Global supremacy and immortality oh so near and yet also so far. But that’s how it should be, isn’t it? Wonder, vindication, elation and glory for one finalist – [...]

November 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

Scheduling an itinerary

When I worked in the travel industry one of the hardest things was to schedule an itinerary that pleased the clients. You must always remember that clients can often arrive exhausted after their air travel and the last thing they want is to tramp around a crowded tourist site. You therefore need to [...]

November 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

Kobe Herb gardens

We Rusters are a perverse crew. We have one staffer who is so afraid of hospitals he once passed out in one and not as a patient, Bob lives in a marina but has no interest in boats and I have large garden but my knowledge of and interest in plants are scanty. However wherever I travel I always [...]

November 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

With just 24 hours and counting to go …

Having yesterday seen some of the early rushes from the Channel Four documentary being made about our intrepid Rusters’ Tour de Japan I am confident that the British public will be in for a veritable treat – not to mention a suitably entertaining antidote to whatever the result of the General [...]

November 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

The lady has a point …

For the most part in the social circles I inhabit the subject of gender equality occasionally arises but causes debate less often. Credit where it is due – in more senses than one – for last summer’s revelatory Lyon & Turnbull exhibition Bright Souls: The Forgotten Story of [...]

November 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

The story so far

Like others in the Rust party I am intrigued by Japan. It’s not just the language that makes it inscrutable but some of the customs too. One is “No tipping”. In the taxi from the shrines of Kyoto to our hotel I covered the fare and there was very small change of about one pound. I naturally [...]

October 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

When common sense goes AWOL

Yes, I am a male correspondent in his late sixties and therefore – despite any pretensions to being sympathetic to the cause of female emancipation I may claim from time to time – no doubt have the fairly rudimentary attitude towards feminism and women generally that as man of my generation [...]

October 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

I think I’m turning Japanese … [Not?]*

(Note: * above is a reference to the worldwide single hit Turning Japanese by The Vapors, taken off their 1980 album New Clear Days). Despite our Rust delegation out in Japan continuing to set new standards of reporting excellence, overnight I spotted a piece in the British media suggesting that [...]

October 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

Kyoto

At the high end of hotels there are basically three: the business hotel, the traditional and the boutique. Of the three I would prefer least to stay in a boutique. Invariably they offer small rooms and the Cross, where we are staying in Kyoto, is no exception – basically a big bed taking up [...]

October 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

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