excellent voyage

It is these days that i wish i had updated this blog more frequently, because someone who'd read it regularly (which in itself is of course not much more than a theoretical possibility), well, this person would possibly have noticed my mysterious absence over this last extended weekend. and I was not only absent, i was actually lost and cut off the rest of the world on a remote island in the pacific ocean. (no, I am not just talking about japan in general.)

to explain it, over the new year holidays I decided to venture the izu islands south of tokyo. accidentally, the same weekend lord petrus decided to send his first marvelous taifun to japan and so it came that I first couldn’t venture to my original choice of island because the ship couldn’t anchor at the port in question. and secondly couldn’t return to Tokyo as planned one day later, because the wind was so strong that neither ship nor airplane would commute. so I grabbed a good book, sat down in the spa of my hotel and chilled (as much as I could while facing the threat of permanent exile on an island I didn’t much care about in the first place.)

check out these pictures, first day “just” rain. (search for the road on the right to get an idea of the scale)

second day, beautiful sunshine and a wind that pushed waves 9 meters over the coastline and plans to return home likewise.