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Weekend in Madrid
New city for us means a lot of walking around and learning a new subway system. We went through a couple of nice parks and a museum, in addition to just meandering the city.
Lunch in Yokohama
We met up with an old colleague from Microsoft who’s living in Yokohama, which was a 45 minute train ride away, but on the same subway lines that we’ve been taking around Tokyo all week.
From his apartment, we could see Mt. Fuji, a baseball game, and the waterfront of Yokohama. walking to a Raman place for lunch, we saw a parade which consisted of about 4 different high school bands and cheerleaders. We never figured out what it was for.
Tsukuji Outer Market
We visited the fish market today and my day started with tomago on a stick (basically a scrambled egg), then had a sampling of sake, and finally decided to grab lunch.
Most places to eat are very small, a few are standing only. They almost all have lines, but while squeezing down one narrow passageway, we saw stairs going up, so we ventured up.
We met a Chinese woman and her family up the stairs and they explained that they were in line for a special little restaurant, but we needed to talk to the lady downstairs first. While she was explaining that, a few others were brought upstairs and put in line behind us. So instead of asking, we just waited.
We were in line for Tsukiji Unitora Nakadori, which apparently gets great reviews and we each had 6 pieces of really tasty sashimi.
The Adventures of Lorie and Brian Groth 