Sunday - the good, the bad and downright painfull!
For those of you who have travelled with me to Japan will know two things , our agents work ve...
PLEASE READ NEWS, NO SHIPPING TODAY . New auction Friday 21st of November 8pm. PLEASE DO NOT BID UNLESS YOUR POND IS 13 DEGREES OR OVER.
We've arrived
Arrived nice and early into Narita airport , racing through customs and baggage hall in what...
Final thoughts and purchases
Left the hotel at 5am for the start of the journey home. From today i have a new found admirat...
Thursday
Getting up today i realised that it was getting to be a nightmare getting round , it had snowe...
Carlsberg dont do koi buying days, but if they did....
This week has been a nice steady pace with koi available of all qualitys and varietys and size...
Tuesday
Today was always going to be about tosai , either hand selecting or getting the breeder to sel...
Monday
This morning we started out just round the corner from our hotel at Marudo koi farm .After hav...
Sunday - Excelled myself today!!
Today we started out at our old friend Maruhiro koi farm . As usual he had many differant vari...
Friday and Saturday
As usual we left Heathrow on our Virgin flight bound for Narita , after a two hour delay waiti...
Highs and lows!
Well , after 20 hours travelling im home at last , for me this was quite a long trip that seem...
Last day today!
Most of this week the weather has been awful , raining every day , and one day it didnt stop f...
Weds 26th
First thing this morning we headed out to go to Hosakai to buy some massive 65-70cm orenji ogo...
Tues 25th
Our first appointment today was at Kawakami , this made a nice change as we were only round th...
Tuesday am ........early
Just woke up to some emails asking why i haddnt replied from a few days ago , im very sorry if...
Mon 24th Sekigchi and Oofuchi
Today we were joined by Stephano from Koi Italia , thinking this would increase our buying pow...
Sun 23rd Relaxing around Ojiya!
With Rod and Diane Taylor joining us from Sussex mid day on Sunday , there wasnt too much driv...
Sat 22nd Lazy day , but still on the case
As the Nagaoka showa was on today , we decieded not to rush as most of the breeders will be at...
Friday the 21st Perfect end to a perfect week !
Today was the last day for our customers and they had all said they had finished buying so i d...
Thursday 20th Just a perfect day...............
I always think that the good follows the bad , and as soon as i found out an appointment at Ma...
Thursday the 20th Keeping fish for the winter
As most of you know we now have two facilitys and are looking for a third ,.This means it is p...
Weds 19th Trouble in paradise !!
Reguler readers of my blog , and people who have visited Niigata will probably know there is a...
Tuesday 18th final part
On the way home we were going to go past Maryhiro , and as the agent had left a camera there i...
Tuesday 18th part 3 Oofuchi
On this leg of our trip there is a lot of driving as the breeders are quiet a distance apart ,...
Tuesday 18th part two Satoshi Tanaka
After spending 45 minutes taking a slow drive to Satoshi , im still pondering about the two sh...