champon comments

Ideal summer fling - with the hot but of stuff I married - else, why would I?!! And I ain't wishin' for a motorbike accident.

In this heat??!! He could have picked January and made it a more pleasant experience....

2-stroke engines are stinky and noisy (but so are the rest of Japanese cities) but they can do 40-70km to the litre, unlike stinkier and noisier cars (hybrids I don't know)

I suggest all hybrids have an attendant walk in front of them thus ensuring they remain at a safe 6.4 kms per hour in the country and 3.2 in towns. Said attendant will also walk 50 metres ahead of the vehicle, bearing a red flag, signaling the driver when to stop.

Or have we been there before...?

(The 'Locomotives on Highways Act' (Red Flag Act) was passed by the British Government in 1865).

Kirakira25, you are most welcome. But I think I meant to say 'SMALL willy syndrome'! They probably drive big red sports cars too...

I have never understood why men (and it usually is men who are behind these projects) want to build ridiculously high buildings in areas prone to earthquakes. Or is it tall poppy (big willy) syndrome??

Bicycles are classed as light vehicles, so the policeman was correct to shout 'dame'. He didn't mean 'use the pedestrian crossing' but that he should do a two-point right-hand turn as 50cc scooters also have to do.