Category: Eating and Cooking

  • A Walk in London

    Continued from the previous entry:

    On the third day, I checked out of the Heathfield B&B on a rainy morning. Since it was a weekday, Keighley Worth & Valley Railway was out of service. The mistress took me to the nearest bus stop on Rawdon Road and told me to wait there for the bus to Keighley.

    While waiting for the bus, an old lady talked to me. She asked me where I was going. I answered that I was going to London. Another lady joined us, and they and I talked a bit until the bus was coming.

    On the bus, I sit on the upper front seat, and the ladies stayed downstairs. Arriving at Keighley bus terminus, I got out of the bus. The train station was a bit distant from the terminus, so I didn’t know how to get there.

    Then the lady who had talked to me first at the Rawdon Road bus stop found me standing there and told me to follow her to the train station, as she was just going shopping nearby. How kind of her! I was able to get to the Keighley train station with her help.

    Waiting room of Keighley station
    Inside Keighley train station.
    Lunch
    The food served on the train on my way from Leeds to London.
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  • A Stroll in Haworth

    Continued from the previous entry:

    English breakfast

    Breakfast served at Heathfield Bed & Breakfast was very British, with a fried egg, fried potatoes, and mushrooms; a fried tomato cut in half; two slices of bacon; two sausages; cereals; slices of bread; a glass of orange juice; and a cup of tea. I have a good appetite for breakfast in England because when it’s breakfast time in England, it’s time to have dinner in Japan, where it’s nine hours ahead.

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  • A Trip to Real England

    Town in Haworth

    Although it was a bit while ago, I made a private trip to the United Kingdom. It was not the British Hills, not an English village, not a British-style cottage in Tochigi Prefecture, not any other “fake Britain” in Japan. It was the real England, where I had wanted to visit before I died. I visited London and Haworth, West Yorkshire. Both of those places were introduced in the Japanese manga Emma by Kaoru Mori, which was one of my favorite comics I’d ever read.

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  • Another Approach to Health

    Ayurvedic medicine, or Ayurveda, is a traditional medical system with a 3,000-year history native to the Himalayan region. Even today, it is regarded as part of alternative medicine in such countries as India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Especially in Sri Lanka, it is protected and encouraged as a national industry by the Department of Ayurveda, the world’s only administrative ministry dedicated to it.

    There is a Sri Lankan-style Ayurvedic clinic in Japan that I’ve visited monthly for almost half a year. Sunil Nishimura, a Sri Lankan Ayurvedic practitioner, has been running this clinic in Kawagoe, Saitama, since 1996. He first came to Japan in 1994, and soon after, he became ill due to the stress of his life there. He asked his family to send him Ayurvedic herbs. He took them, imported from his home country, and changed his eating habits to Sri Lankan ones. He soon recovered his health after he changed his life. That was why he opened an Ayurvedic clinic for Japanese people suffering from diseases of civilization.

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  • Brazilian Town in Japan

    I visited Oizumi, Gumma Prefecture. Large factories and plants were invited to set up in this town, and mainly Japanese Brazilians were attracted there as factory workers. According to statistics, almost 6,000 people out of this town’s population of about 41,000 are from abroad.

    The Brazilian Plaza
    Street in Brazilian town
    Sign in Portuguese
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  • Paju English Village in South Korea

    Paju English Village in South Korea

    Market Street

    Visiting England is one of the things I want to do in the future. I planned a trip there in the middle of September. I purchased air tickets to and from London and booked hotels there. To my sorrow, however, I was forced to cancel all of the reservations because of the hectic work I had been doing for almost two years. The British Hills is one of its alternatives, but I get tired of it as I have visited there many times. One day, I heard about such a place in South Korea that mocked English streets. That’s why I visited South Korea this month, though I didn’t understand Korean at all.

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