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In Glasgow, the sunshine capitol of Europe, global warming has caused the Mediterranean cafe culture to take off big time. And that's...

And the turkey was nice too. It is, however, very dark in Scotland at this time of year. -- Posted By Blogger to jules' pics ...

Much enjoying the improved sheep density in Ole Blighty compared to Japan, although we have yet to eat any of them, because the relatives ...

The AGU is making a greater effort to stream quite a bit of stuff online . Actually finding the sessions seems a bit difficult, but hopefull...

The people came and packed up our stuff and took it all away - in 143 packages. Getting ready to eject the sofa out the window and ov...

As an update to something I blogged about last year , I thought I'd look at the final version of the IPCC AR5 WG1 report to see how Japa...

James doesn't actually like sushi, so I have to go alone. The kaitenzushi (plates of sushi goes around on a conveyor belt) near Kamakura...

It's a tough life working for JAMSTEC. Here's my desk on our last day. By the third from last purchase, when we were told to ...

So, this is going to be a long and boring post which delves into one of the reasons why we wanted to keep up our permanent residency (thoug...

It's taken us 12 years, and we only just managed before leaving, but we've finally discovered what Tsukuba city is good for - road...