(Guest post by Duncan)
Our meanderings around the lively entertainment district of Isezakicho in Yokohama – a long pedestrianised shopping street which leads from the historical portside town of Kannai south-westerly to the seamy Bandobashi and Koganecho neighbourhoods – often yield fabulous scent bargains, and yesterday was no exception, with Ginza bagging a rare bottle of Must de Cartier II Eau Fraiche!
In the summer, we often wait until mid afternoon to head out and we have a regular route in Isezakicho, which takes in a motley medley of junk shops, recycle boutiques, secondhand bookstores, bygone kissaten (old fashioned cafes serving industrial-strength German roast kohi), an art cinema (called Jack and Betty), and restaurants (Isezakicho is Yokohama’s Asian quarter and the best place to eat Thai and Vietnamese nosh). It’s a fascinating mishmash of trashy (bling hip hop gear, knockoff perfumes, hostess heels and lurid flounciness), highstreet bargain basements…
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I remember this post. It had me aching to get to Japan and explore with the both of you. All the vintage scents will be long gone by the time I make it there I think.
Ah but some will keep trickling in. We will have a great night out I guarantee. It WILL still happen! Just delayed a bit…
It’s so weird this last year (and it is not even over yet….we are not any where near getting vaccines yet and cases are rising here – the government quite ineffectual – ) but it will be within the year we hope and then by 2022 travelling might start again. I wonder how we will all look back on this time….
At least it is mentally quieter without that Satanic ASshole eating up the airwaves every day. I do feel mentally more serene as a result – thank GOD he lost the election, seriously. My labyrinthitis was a culmination of a crescendo of work stress – which I still haven’t written about because I think I am trying to put it behind me -might put it in my book instead, an utter EXASPERATION that was intolerable, plus drinking too much and then just my brain collapsing. Right now I feel as if I have passed through to the other side a bit – more positive and with a sense of light at the end of the tunnel clarity.
How about you?