Monthly Archives: April 2014

Stirrings

Posted on April 29, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

The island is definitely stirring. Summer is coming and with that loads of tourists. In fact this is the start of Golden Week when Japan takes off. The hotels are sprucing themselves up.  One near me has anchored two of … Continue reading →

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It’s a hap-hap-happy day. Toodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-lay. The sun shines bright and the world’s so right.

Posted on April 25, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

It turns out that Okinawa is the best place in the world to buy second-hand outboard motors. I go visit my old sidekick Chinen-san, from whom I bought my first boat. He does business from a broken down hangar place … Continue reading →

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Three Men in a Boat.

Posted on April 20, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

So the time has come. Harry, Tsumoru and I take the boat to the harbor. It is the best day, blue sky, turquoise sea, healthy wind. Truck pulls the boat and trailer supports it. We rig Dileas and everything goes … Continue reading →

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Haste to the Wedding

Posted on April 19, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

Tommy, guitar player in the best traditional Irish music band on Okinawa, gets married. I went sulkily as I blamed the wedding for not giving me enough time to go sailing. It took me an hour and a half to … Continue reading →

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That’s a Girl’s Thing

Posted on April 19, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

I once lost the keys for a rented Harley Davidson on top of a mountain in Colorado and was thus stranded. I phoned the man I had rented it from whose name was Tiny. ” Hey Neil, look I’m at … Continue reading →

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Things Get Out of Claw

Posted on April 12, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

After four days of web stuff and dinners, I break away on the final evening to seek out my place of venality – a fish market .Not for me the throb of the night club nor the slurp of the … Continue reading →

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Reincarnation

Posted on April 10, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

The conference/exhibition center where I am spending my time at the moment is in Korea and is called Corex. I wonder why? Anyway, it is well sited as just across the road there is a Buddhist temple. Today I wander … Continue reading →

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Guts

Posted on April 8, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

So another city; the thrill of arriving somewhat dulled by the endless journey from the airport to downtown. I go eat but in this place I do not know one word of the language – not even hello. I mimic … Continue reading →

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In the Rank Sweat of an Enseamed Bed

Posted on April 5, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

Did your parents’ bedroom smell? My parents’ bedroom, into which I would wander as a child, always had the  sweaty, foetid odor of the marsh. I think this was because they slept on the same mattress or palliasse, which was stuffed … Continue reading →

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Legs 11

Posted on April 2, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

I have got to know a young woman who makes cups and lots of other stuff with legs sticking out of them. I suggest that she is influenced by Hieronymus Bosch and she goes, “Say what?” Anyway she is lots … Continue reading →

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