Happy Hippie House Party. “Make New Real Friends.”

I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.

 

Just for the record: I greatly admire you travelers!

If I had a bazillion dollars, I still would be a fraidy-cat to travel.

I've read all about lots of places...the Orient (Japan and China) being just a few of these places.

The Congo would also be a fabulous place. Africa is full of treasures with Egypt being especially fascinating to me.

Machu Picchu and other Incan lands have left my mind in wonder of what happened there...

I travel in my dreams.

Even though I only travel in my mind, I always enjoy reading other people's accounts of their (real-life) travels.

 

I'm in
Ore Bit.

 

I was in a little Greek Touristy Shop once and there was a Young Boy about fourteen working the Till " You're from Liverpool I love it there " Cool I said " have you Been "
" Yes " he replied " Liverpool, London, Paris, New York , Dublin , Every night in my dreams " I liked that Kid

 

Hello to everyone in this house.. :bandana:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xA9pfaGGXg&feature=youtu.be

 

Hey, I just heard on the web radio that today is musician Johny Winter's birthday. I saw him at the newer Fillmore in '69. The Carousel Ballroom.

San Francisco jazz station KCSM :

http://kcsm.org/

But I'm listening by using iTunes. Internet radio. /jazz/ KCSM
Some of you might Love it.

 

Have a laugh Guys !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auIvPUv5QLA

 

what happened to all of you?this house has always been in this condition..alive or sleepy.. :devil:
I'm alive...i can tell you all i've been very busy on booking.com looking for accomodation in Japan for my April trip...
fact is==it was NEARLY impossible to book anything in Kyoto==must be these shinto shrines,Japanese gardens and cherrie blossoms?
no fucking idea...finally i ended up by booking a different experience kind of hotel==a cubicle(capsule)hotel?...as a matter of act...I do NOT like it...
but I had no choice..further afield i booked excellent hostels/hotels in Osaka,Tokyo,Nara,Hiroshima and Kobe..
I'm really curious about these Japan people..they are all so funny,polite and nice..i will keep you all at the go in my blog...when I am back..
i listened to some you tubes today...which brought me back to Kiruna 1971..into my crazy Tiger years... :bulb: it's certainly psychedelic music..
let me know what you all think...and by the way==where is my neighbour piece?and where is the rest of you all?
in fact....we will NEVER let this house die...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.. :bandana: come on,awake,folks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ps0hl7BiHE&feature=youtu.be



Tiger

 

I have been on vacation from my room 13 here. Just checking in to make sure nobody stole the stereo.

 

Stereo's still there. I just looked. It's all good.

How's you vacation? What's up?

 

Will somebody from the river Mercy please play some Mercy beat?

LOL

 

Here goes some typical Mersey beat,Kenny...just for you...
but the real Mersey folks on this forum are Mallyboppa and Morrow(babs)
they are TRUE Liverpoolians...nothing can beat that...
i think babs should be in this house.. :bulb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6bt85ipBh8

 

The Mersey

 

The Beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXWVpcypf0w&feature=youtu.be

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgPSpVUg0iM&feature=youtu.be

 

Some very nice Mersey.

 

Some capsule hotels are like sleeping berths on a train. But I would say that if you can more easily get a hotel in Osaka, you might just take the train into Kyoto. Or you might find a place somewhere in between----I know the Kansai train line the best as I always lived near it when I lived in Osaka. Some examples of places to look for a hotel might be Kyobashi (which is still in Osaka---close to Osaka Castle). I would take a Kyukou (Express) from there to get to Kyoto the quickest---a futsu stops at every stop and will take a while. If you want a ritsy nice place to stay----I would suggest the New Otani (Kyobashi New Otani?) which is walkng distance to the station. Also try Moriguchi, Neyagawa, and Hirakata (which are still in Osaka Prefecture)---Hirakata is right about the middle between Osaka and Kyoto. Kuzuha is a possibility. After that you are pretty much in Kyoto Prefecture. Actually you can look on Wikipedia---Keihan Main Line---for a map and cities to try.

IF you are staying in Umeda, Nanba or any of the other main spots to visit in Osaka you are pretty close to the Keihan line anyway.

Kyoto should have a fair share of Ryoukans----traditional Japanese inns. That would be a great type of place to stay in and will give you a real traditional Japanese experience. Some suggestions of locations around Kyoto----Fushimi Inari (where the shrine is I wrote about), Uji, a rice growing area just around the mountain from Kyoto. Biwako (Lake Biwa). and so forth---all accesible by train.

That reminds me---Lake Biwa is home to some of the most famous Turkish Baths (though they are no longer called that---Turkey it was offensive----now they are called soapland). Basically they are baths where the women use their bodies to wash and scrub you. If you pay extra, then they do much more. I have never gotten to visit one, I assumed my first wife wouldn't have liked it. My wife now definitely would not have allowed it. You can actually find them in any city but those in Biwa are especially famous.

Another fairly cheap but risky possiblity, which you probably won't be able to make reservations for (hence the risk) is a love hotel. normally you pay by the hour, but starting at midnight, there is 'service time,' where you can rent the room till the morning. It starts at different times depending on the hotel and there might be other types of service times for multiple hours before the actual service time starts. On a week night you can probably get a room pretty cheap from say, midnight to 7:00 or 8:00 am. The risk is that you have to show up right about the time the service time starts and get a room, otherwise you may not get a room. However love hotels are very gaudy fancy buildings with lots of lights, and they are grouped together. (And by the way, there is one such neighborhood near the Kyobashi station.) So you may be able to find a hotel next door with a room if you weren't able to get one at the first hotel. Weekend nights are the most difficult.

My wife and I used to do this in order to get cheap rooms. The rooms are clean and fairly nice, and some of them have interesting 'toys...'

 

Oh---I forgot---love hotels are not exactly international hotels per se' so the staff and front desk employees will probably not be that versed at English.

 

Thanks for your input on Japan,Wolf...
I do not know whether i will go tyo an onsen(bath)
did you know that tattoo-ed people are send back and are not allowed in...
they associate it with the Yakuza... :devil:

your wife Minda was right..you should not go to Biwa(ahah)
nothing beats the beauty of the women from Manila...do you agree,Wolf?

 

The onsen is actually a hot spring---and that is a real trip. Most of them today separate by sex, but the deeper into the countryside you go, the more mixed bathing they are. They are not clothing optional---if you wore a bathing suit, you would be viewed as soiling the water. However you should have a hand towel---actually a towel that is as wide as a hand towel, but longer---the length of, say, a dishtowel. You can use that to cover up your more private region. It's real purpose is for scrubbing soap (which you will do before you go into the springs), and to serve as a towel to wipe off sweatm, etc.

A sento is a public bath. That is actually a wonderful experience too. It would be extremely difficult to find one with mixed bathing. You want to make sure you go into the door where other males are entering. It is very cheap, and you will need to bring your soap, shampoo, etc. You'll get a key to open a locker where you will leave your large towel for drying off (keep your smaller hand towel as I described above) and your clothes. You will then walk into the bath, and grab a stool and a small plastic wash basin. You will see people sitting along the walls on the stools washing themselves with small faucets and the basins. Find a spot and cleanse yourself there. You do not get into the bath until after cleaning yourself. There will be 2 spigots----the hot water is identified by a Chinese character (kanji) in red, the cold is in blue. After washing yourself clean you can hop in the bath and relax. There will be one or two large baths where most people hop in. In some places you will find small baths, and people will generally stay out of them, or one person will sit in one for a bit---these could be mdicinal or herbal baths, but there is also an electric bath----if you hop in there will be a small current running through it, which I don't find enjoyable---some people use it for muscle aches and what not. If I recall, there are probably metal plates in it to identify it (since I assume you don't read Japanese).

Sento's generally use spring water as well. Some is cold and hast to be heated up, others can be too hot and have to be cooled down. All sentos can be spotted by the smokestack rising up several stories next to the building. About 40 or 50 years ago, the springs in the region around Mt. Fujii were too cold and had to be heated. Since about 20 some years ago, they have been too hot and have to be cooled down. Many capsule hotels will have a bath inside the building.

The etiquete I've listed is the same for all Japanese baths. In someone's home the bath is drawn in the early evening or late afternoon and is not drained until the last person has been in it (so be sure to wash off first). The same is true in Japanese inn or Ryoukan.

If you are staying at someone's house, the custom is to allow the owner's wife, or oldest daughter, to perform the special ceremony known as o-kyaku-no-gyo-chimpo-arai, or the 'Honorable washing of the visitor's Augustine Penis.'

----------I just made up that last part...!


There was a time when someone with a lot of tattoos was suspect, and could be turned away at immigration. I don't know if that is still true since tattoos have become a much greater cultural phenomena around the world. By the way, depending on the neighborhood, you could very well see a few yakuza, complete with their elaborate tattoos in a public bath.


Yes---Filipina women, and South East Asian women in general, can be very beautiful. There are some very beautiful Japanese women. But there are some incredibly beautiful Filipinas. When I first met my wife on the subway in Tokyo I thought she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.

I would say that Filipinas are far easier to pick up as well----if you can read the signs you can walk into a room of Filipinas and pick out which girls would be receptive to a date very quickly, and to a good extent which ones will take you to bed that night. Japanese women put out the same vibes, but they are not as blatant and there are more of them that are shy and not putting out enough signals.

One pick up line, which is probably way too cliche (I have never had the opportunity to check it out because I have always been with a girlfriend/wife in Japan), but it is certainly a way of asking: "Asa no kohi issho ni nomimasenka?" ('Won't you drink a morning coffee with me?). (------oh, it doesn't mean the same if you say it in the morning...)