Here are some lovely rooftops and buildings from the last couple of months.

the view to the east of the Marais in October.

Tokyo - behind Shibuya.

Water tank in Shibuya  and Downtown Auckland - I think the blue car is making that building look good.

Nice scrap yard in Auckland.

Finally - beautiful Hong Kong. There are roof gardens on the tops of the buildings down there.

On a lighter note....   I have noticed a national obsession here....    traffic cones, they pop up everywhere and become little characters once you start to notice them. They come in all sizes and colours. Hopefully I get the pictures on here before my flight is called or I run out of battery.

Last night Momoko and I went for some sushi to celebrate our last evening in Tokyo. We went to Naka-Meguro in a small riverside place where we sat at the bar and the clientele smoked a lot. There were a dozen or so of the fishy little bricks on a wooden block in front of us and we were working our way through them with a couple of beers.

Gradually, my attention was taken by a new dish that was being prepared in front of us. The chef had got a live fish and cut the fillets off it. Then he skewered it and sat it upon a pile of grated radish and arranged the cut up pieces of its own fillets around it. There was a nice little pile of ginger on the side. It looked spectacular, but the poor fish was still gasping for life after 5 minutes of preparation.

Momoko's reaction was "wow - that is truly fresh fish",  whereas mine was to dissolve into tears and not be able to finish my sushi. I was too upset to take a picture,  so here's a drawing of the last moments of poor Mr. Fish.

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