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Ugh. Yeah, to you and me both. Note that it was NOT removed from the conveyor belt to be eaten by yours truly. It's cod sperm, and said to be quite delicious, but for me, not in this bloody lifetime, no sir. I draw a firm line at fish reproductive stuff to eat, and have always called it good at roe/eggs.

Second guess was a good one. That's the other, other, other red meat: whale. Minke flavor.

As always - fascinating! Thanks for sharing. My best to both of you, John

DAAAMMMMMNNN girl - $10 beer night. Whats a Blue Smoothie go for? The far east tourism board must be trying to repel all Wisconsin born visitors.

In all seriousness great photos as always and I'm jealous (minus booze prices).

What's with the frost bitten toes?

Definitely a bit more crowded there than Delta Jct.

Yep, I was drinking Jim Beam that night. Cheapest thing on the menu. I won't pay 65 bucks a six pack for *anything* in the beer universe. Those two pages were from a beer menu with about 200 varieties. Nice to have choices, but as you correctly noted, they charge a king's ransom for some imported things and I'm not that guy. I can have most of the beers them offered back him for about 75% less than what they charged there. Gotta' give the place credit though for being pretty good as a British pub. They made and offered haggis there, among other traditional Brit pub grub. Fish and chips, OK, that's cool, but homemade, authentic haggis? I was impressed!

Cigarette pack health warning. The caption mentioned something about smoking potentially causing gangrene. I stayed away from that brand.

They've always been wonderful to me and I try to do the same. Thanks, T.

Thanks for all of this, Leighton. Your photo efforts always are impressive. Food images cause drooling, and the various scenes very interesting I most enjoy the photos of the folks - and especially those of your wife in various settings - lovely smile there.

i haven't kept up with the yen-greenback translation, but i'll bet that meat was expensive. last time i was in tokyo, i got 2 little ribs, a little mound of rice and a coke and it was something like 25 bucks.

Awesome pics. Thank you for sharing KG!

Thanks, KG, always enjoy your posts. Happy new year.

There were 5 separate 'baths' at that place, and all had different temps. I can stand heat as far as water about as well as I can stand cold. That is to say, I can withstand both better than most. Likely my ample, ahem, insulation. 3 of the 5 'baths'--some are maybe 1500 square feet were hot enough that the wife and others we shared tubs with had to work their way in, starting with feet, and after finally managing to get submerged, could last only maybe 15 minutes before squallerin' about being cooked alive and climbing out. One pool was very mild in temps so there were those who spent most of their time there. One was hot, and I mean HOT. Like turn your skin beet red inside a couple minutes hot. Like felt as if you could make yourself a cup of instant coffee with it hot. That was my favorite, and you do get used to it. At the source it felt as if it was scalding hot, but after maybe 30-45 minutes in it and creeping closer to where the water flows into the pool, I was able to actually let the water cascade out of the rock and directly on me as I sat underneath. But then that was whisky night...

That Dutch dude with the crossed eyes in that one pic with wifey laughing? He staggered into another pool right after that, and proceeded to yak IN the pool. Fuggin' gaijins! Can't take 'em anywhere. The other two literally dragged him down the wooden halls about 100 yards to his room, banged on the door and pushed him inside. A big thump was followed by a light getting turned on, a loud groan and then, an "OH MY GOD YOU, YOU, YOU DRUNK AS MONKEY!" My old lady beat feet down the hall with the other kid as the wife from Hong Kong awoke and began reading the guy the Chinese riot act. Luckily for him, when we saw him the next night he admitted he'd zero recollection of much of anything after around 2am. Good times.

I can handlr chop sticks like those in the top pic. [/quote]

Hmm. I'd not bet against you if sober but I'm not entirely convinced. You might just put yer damn eye out. Those bastards are sharp...

Drunks rule!