Well, made it back from Mount Fuji in one piece. Almost made it to the top (just before level 8) before Our Man realised if he kept going, a) his trainers wouldn't hold out much longer, b) he'd miss the bus back to his hotel c) If he missed the bus, he'd miss supper with the family back at base camp - a swanky Italian restaurant. He'd like to do a MacArthur and vow I will return, but he doesn't fancy doing battle with the waves of tourist groups going up the beaten track, all dressed in the proper gear, plus touristy Fuji Climbing Stick (¥1,200), so he probably won't return, if he can help it thank you very much.
Anyway, Our Man had the misfortune to have five minutes spare and read this in the Daily Gomiuri and was instantly reminded how glad he was he doesn't work there anymore:
Prime Minister Taro Aso, who also serves as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, chose Obihiro, Hokkaido, to begin his campaigning Wednesday.
Obihiro is located in the electoral district of Shoichi Nakagawa, a close friend of Aso's who served as the finance minister and state minister in charge of financial services in the Aso Cabinet. Nakagawa resigned from his post in February to take responsibility for causing controversy by slurring his words, appearing to be dazed and dozing off during a press conference held after a Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank governors' meeting in Rome. Nakagawa is now facing a tough campaign.
Slurring his words, appearing to be dazed and dozing off????? The man was pissed as a fart, as any cursory glance at the video record will show (oh, naturally YouTube has pulled the evidence from its vaults, wimps, but they missed this one here, tee hee). Way to go Daily Yom, talk about calling a spade a digging implement used to sift earth, eh readers?
Pic taken by Our Man of the highest point he got to before beating a hasty retreat for antipasta.
4 comments:
yah gotta pick yer battles these days, at least we used the name. Try to think of it as a "paper with news" rather than a newspaper as you would normally think of term being used
As someone who got mountain sickness on Fuji (as well as on Grindelwald) I commend your choice to return for pasta and antipasta.
Personally, I could not keep anything down after either experience...
Ok, I am no fun.
Yeah, picking your battles is a refrain 0ur Man heard a lot from folk who didn't want any battles at all. But, take your point. Probably an inability to know which battles to pick is why Our Man is where he is today and not sitting pretty doing naff all.
Glad to have seen what all the fuss was about on Fuji, it gave Our Man a hankering for a more off-the-beaten track climbing experience.
on the topic of Fuji, I've been there, had the altitude headaches etc and I feel I should say that the filthiest toilet in Japan is at the top of the mountain -- it consists of a filthy cubicle with a hole in the floor through which to shit on the side of the mountain - there is no pretense of keeping o clean, it is just a building cantilevered out over the side of the incline away from the trail where you empty your bowels into the open air so the filth can splash down the side of the mountain
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