For those of you who have travelled with me to Japan will know two things , our agents work ve...

Arrived nice and early into Narita airport , racing  through customs and baggage hall in what...

Left the hotel at 5am for the start of the journey home. From today i have a new found admirat...

Getting up today i realised that it was getting to be a nightmare getting round , it had snowe...

This week has been a nice steady pace with koi available of all qualitys and varietys and size...

Today was always going to be about tosai , either hand selecting or getting the breeder to sel...

This morning we started out just round the corner from our hotel at Marudo koi farm .After hav...

Today we started out at our old friend Maruhiro koi farm . As usual he had many differant vari...

As usual we left Heathrow on our Virgin flight bound for Narita , after a two hour delay waiti...

Well , after 20 hours travelling im home at last , for me this was quite a long trip that seem...

Most of this week the weather has been awful , raining every day , and one day it didnt stop f...

First thing this morning we headed out to go to Hosakai to buy some massive 65-70cm orenji ogo...

Our first appointment today was at Kawakami , this made a nice change as we were only round th...

Just woke up to some emails asking why i haddnt replied from a few days ago , im very sorry if...

Today we were joined by Stephano from Koi Italia , thinking this would increase our buying pow...

With Rod and Diane Taylor joining us from Sussex mid day on Sunday , there wasnt too much driv...

As the Nagaoka showa was on today , we decieded not to rush as most of the breeders will be at...

Today was the last day for our customers and they had all said they had finished buying so i d...

I always think that the good follows the bad , and as soon as i found out an appointment at Ma...

As most of you know we now have two facilitys and are looking for a third ,.This means it is p...

Reguler readers of my blog , and people who have visited Niigata will probably know there is a...

On the way home we were going to go past Maryhiro , and as the agent had left a camera there i...

On this leg of our trip there is a lot of driving as the breeders are quiet a distance apart ,...

After spending 45 minutes taking a slow drive to Satoshi , im still pondering about the two sh...