michael lambe

If you read the last post you might think I have a rather loose idea of what the word tomorrow means. I haven’t posted the rest of my Ehime pictures up till now because I wanted to find an easy to use plugin for wordpress that would enable me to embed simple slideshows of my [...]

I was going to upload my summer holiday photos (in time-honored mikeylambe.com tradition) via those nifty little bubbleshare widgets but I just learned that they will cease to exist (along with bubbleshare.com) this November. I suppose I should have seen it coming (I mean the name: bubble!) but it means all the photos I have [...]

Here finally are the rest of my pictures from South Africa.
Day 5 – On this day we went to see the penguins. These African penguins are sometimes called “Jackass penguins” because of the braying call they make. Then we went further south to the Cape of Good Hope, and I wandered from there to Cape [...]

September is here, summer is over and I’m back at work already. This time last week I was in an African desert, but tomorrow I’ll be standing in front of Japanese teenagers once again teaching the past tense of irregular verbs. I got back last Saturday and I’m still jet-lagged so forgive the late posting. [...]

I’m off to Africa today. AFRICA!! Fancy that! Specifically, Cape Town in South Africa to visit Udo and Fumi. They live in Seapoint which I believe is a bit posh and they can it seems see whales gambolling in the ocean from their balcony. Fancy that! I told my mother about the whales and she [...]

As I mentioned previously I went to an onsen hotel in Kaga city last weekend, which I chose simply because it was cheap. This isn’t always the best criterion. “What’s in Ishikawa prefecture then?” I asked. “Mountains,” said the travel agent. “They have mountains, I think.” They do have mountains. But they are very far [...]

I received a very entertaining rant yesterday from a friend of mine on why he finds it difficult to get used to life in Australia:
…how do you have an intelligent conversation of any kind with someone who either thinks that A) sports is the center of the universe, B) Kylie Minogue is the center of [...]

A fresh review up on Deep Kyoto today of the restaurant/gallery Neutron Cafe.
Yesterday, Kageyama-san, Betty and I went on a little day trip to Kobe. Kageyama-san is an excellent guide to Kobe as he often “escapes from Kyoto” to enjoy the more cosmopolitan atmosphere there and also – the good food. The first place he [...]

Ok, as promised here are the pictures from the second day of our trip to Kinosaki onsen resort. We also took a short trip to the seaside and (from Kinosaki but a short taxi-ride away) went to Genbudo. Genbudo has some very interesting volcanic rock formations and a museum with a very cool rock collection [...]

This blog is one year old today. Goodness gracious me. Now as I mentioned a few days ago, I went to Kinosaki onsen resort last week with Hyon Ju, so I’ll post some pictures from Tuesday here. We did a lot of hot-spring bathing, clip-clopping about the streets in geta and eating eating eating… And [...]