A trip to Melbourne
Despite all the ridiculous election candidate vans driving endlessly up and down our street promoting themselves via loudspeaker, we managed to sleep off most of our grumpiness last night and woke to find sunshine appearing through the clouds.
I think the election will be on Sunday… At least I hope it will be over soon, as the campaign vans for each of the candidates are horribly loud and annoying. They are a little amusing to see though, as they are filled with brightly clothed women waving out the window with white-gloved hands. Odd.
We went on a small trip to Melbourne today. Well.. not really, but it felt like it anyway.
Patrick knows Tokyo back-to-front because he runs all over it everyday, so if I am lucky, he will take me out to see some interesting places on my days off.
Today we walked through Aoyama to Roppongi. I couldn’t believe the number of parks and gardens along the way, and thanks to the past week’s miserable rain, everything was so green (Probably actually much more so than Melbourne has been for a while).
The air smelt like damp trees and there weren’t a lot of people or cars along the way, so it was a nice way to spend a day off. We walked through the new Midtown Plaza area in Roppongi and were happy to find an outdoor cafe just like any we’d find in Melbourne.
We bought lunch at Soup Stock Tokyo, which was a very clever find of Patrick’s. They have an amazing menu of soups which come with either a fresh bread roll or sesame rice. The restaurant itself had the atmosphere of a Melbourne cafe and I think we would have happily spent the whole evening sitting there if we could.
I finished my day with TWO small tubs of Haagen Dazs Dulce de Leche ice-cream, which is the best ice-cream in the world.
Ahh.
Oh. AND we found some cherry blossoms still hanging on to their branches.
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