Japan
There’s this sweet we eat in Scandinavia called Salmiak… It’s a love it or hate it thing, and I love it!! It’s a weird thing to the rest of the world… Most people have tasted liquorice, well imagine liquorice but without a sweet flavour, instead with a salty flavour. That’s salmiak! I said it was [...]
Working for a Japanese company is rather fun. Culturally, it’s very different from European and US companies, which is refreshing, and of course one has the benefit that if one has to visit Head Office, one gets to go to Tokyo! This time, we had some meetings on the 32nd floor of our head office [...]
When I was in Japan last week, we stayed at a hotel called the Villa Fontaine. A bit of a strange one: A lovely lobby, OK rooms and the worst breakfast on the planet. However, one thing they do is that they have a projector which projects a kitsch Japanese bamboo-ish image on the blind [...]
Anyone who’s seen my face when I drink a glass of Beaujolais (with a very few notable exceptions!) will have come to the conclusion that I’m not a very big fan of that region’s red wines. For me, the horror of horrors is Beaujolais Nouveau! Yes, in France it is a fun night out, a [...]