Football, Meat Pies, Samurais, And…Penny Farthings?
After a fairly busy weekend in which I was constantly busy, but never really got much of note done. I could, however, look back and say that at least I had encountered football, meat pies, Samurais and….well, not the Chevorlet or Holden cars the old ads talked about, but, um, penny farthings. Rides on Friday and Saturday traversed the Sekiya no Kiridoshi, a samurai road connecting Onojijuku, an inn from the Edo period (1603-1868), and the road into Edo, the predecessor of Tokyo. It’s a delightful, bucolic setting and photogenic. Saturday afternoon was devoted to study, then calling family and catching up on the latest news, which was unfortunately that…