The English Bar
ah yesterday was an emotional time! 3 of my good friends (wow thats bizarre, having good friends after 3 days?!) left the hostel in search for adventure: be it in their home town of Texas or the distant splendour of the ancient Kyoto.
Anyway, to bid them fairwell a group of 7 or 8 of us headed halfway accross the subway line to seek out an Irish bar that one of the group highly reccomended. The end result was, as expected, and irish themed bar, hideously caked in tacky shamrocks and sickly shades of green yet still offering a sense of genuinity to it! They seemed to fully pimp guiness, though the prices were definatly not Irish (no offence to those green shoed peasants), ie we're talking 900yen a pint: that's about 4.80 quid. ..Dan, you'd be screwed! :P
the bars here are pretty decent, but the western style ones are questionable: there's a few japanese integrations that bug me, for example people coming to your table to ask what drink you want..it's a pub, not a restaurant! and fish and chips here...my lord. I mean come on, we don't do sushi that bad in the UK!
We've got our tickets for kyoto ourselves now: the fruits of a 1 hour trek accross the city and a rather large confusuion on my behalf resulting in me buying the wrong tickets; but I easily corrected it..by going back and telling him he did it wrong, at which point my intended ticket to kyoto became my deserved ticket to hell..possibly.
Right now i'm in an internet cafe. It was a tough ordeal to get online though as the staff don't speak English and my Japanese is a bit shite...well ok, total bollocks ;) haha, but we managed! There's a pool table here too, and a few Japanese dudes/girls there too: I'll go challenge them on behlaf of england, show them how skilled we brits are at pool ;) booyakasha *clicks fingers*
no real plans for tonight though..maybe head out to one of the party districts of the city before leaving tomorow night for kyoooto to hook up with the lovely canadians and hopefully some Japanese friends too!
over n out,
-Ben
Anyway, to bid them fairwell a group of 7 or 8 of us headed halfway accross the subway line to seek out an Irish bar that one of the group highly reccomended. The end result was, as expected, and irish themed bar, hideously caked in tacky shamrocks and sickly shades of green yet still offering a sense of genuinity to it! They seemed to fully pimp guiness, though the prices were definatly not Irish (no offence to those green shoed peasants), ie we're talking 900yen a pint: that's about 4.80 quid. ..Dan, you'd be screwed! :P
the bars here are pretty decent, but the western style ones are questionable: there's a few japanese integrations that bug me, for example people coming to your table to ask what drink you want..it's a pub, not a restaurant! and fish and chips here...my lord. I mean come on, we don't do sushi that bad in the UK!
We've got our tickets for kyoto ourselves now: the fruits of a 1 hour trek accross the city and a rather large confusuion on my behalf resulting in me buying the wrong tickets; but I easily corrected it..by going back and telling him he did it wrong, at which point my intended ticket to kyoto became my deserved ticket to hell..possibly.
Right now i'm in an internet cafe. It was a tough ordeal to get online though as the staff don't speak English and my Japanese is a bit shite...well ok, total bollocks ;) haha, but we managed! There's a pool table here too, and a few Japanese dudes/girls there too: I'll go challenge them on behlaf of england, show them how skilled we brits are at pool ;) booyakasha *clicks fingers*
no real plans for tonight though..maybe head out to one of the party districts of the city before leaving tomorow night for kyoooto to hook up with the lovely canadians and hopefully some Japanese friends too!
over n out,
-Ben
posted by Ben at
4:28 AM
1 Comments:
Haha, on behalf of England, ill appologise in advance for Bens pool 'skills' :P
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Anonymous, at 6/01/2005 3:33 AM
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