Japanese games

Back in Japan, I was in our magic bar as usual during the weekend. On Saturday, one of our regulars got married, and they held the "after party" in our magic bar. After this party, the husband went off with most of the guests to have an "after after party", but the bride stayed in our bar.

They had planned quite a lot of party games for the after party but did not have time to do all of them. This meant that they had a bag full of panty hoses left, which they gave to my colleagues. Two of my colleagues then put these on their heads, and had a kind of tug of war. The first one to have his panty hose pulled off his head loses. Weird game...

Strangely enough, the bride stayed in our bar the whole night, at least until 7 A.M. when I left. The groom also showed up at around 4 A.M., so they at least spent their wedding night together... but why spend it in a magic bar!?

Tit bit

In the airplane between Munich and Tokyo, they had "tit bits" in a cupboard. Not sure what that was.

Poland: Lekomat

In the airport there was a machine called a "lekomat". It sells drugs. In Swedish, anything that ends in "-mat" is a machine like that, so so far the words are similar. In Swedish, "lek-" means "to play", so it sounds like a machine that will play with you (or at least sell toys). The "healing" word in Swedish would be "läke-", where "ä" sounds similar to "e", so it is still close.

Poland: Strange green tea

In the airport, I found something called green tea. It was indeed green, and possibly tea, but it was very different from Japanese green tea. It was flavored with strawberry and aloe vera, and tasted pretty much like green colored aloe vera. Not great.

Kórnik: Flat tire

The best time to get a flat tire is perhaps not when you are on your way to catch a plane from Europe to Japan...

When we were on our way to the airport, we got a flat tire in the middle of nowhere. It was a little bit worrying, since for this business trip we had had to sign a paper stating that if there were any extra costs because of for example missing your flight, the university would not pay. So if we were late to the airport, I would have to pay my return ticket myself.

Team work = one guy changing the tire, three guys watching, and one guy taking pictures.

Luckily, our Polish guide said that the Polish roads are very bad and this kind of thing happens all the time, so he was used to changing tires. He was slower than a formula 1 team, but changed the tire in less than 10 minutes and we had no problems at all in reaching the airport on time.

The only thing close to where we got our flat tire was a place selling Swedish made gardening machines.

Kórnik: More scenery

We went out to see another palace like place, that also had oaks that were many hundreds of years old.

Kórnik: Great food

I had a traditional soup based on sour rye, ham, and mushrooms. Very good.

We went to a restaurant in Kórnik that our guide's sister (who lived in Kórnik for quite some time) said was the best. It was very nice, had great food, and even had "normal" toilet paper, haha!

The restaurant interior was very nice.

I also had the recommended local specialty: a duck filled with apples. The white things are steamed bread.

A toilet in Poland with toilet paper that you can find in Sweden too!