Continue reading »]]> Crunch mode

I’m in crunch mode. Who already glanced at the German www.cyclonara.de page might have discovered that the contents about my stay in Japan have been transferred. With this post my blog moves and is turned into my blog about my bicycle trip. Well. Still three weeks to go. After my journey through South Korea the last remaining weeks of the whole year in Japan during the aftermath of Fukushima will follow then. Only the loyal readers know why it wasn’t possible to stay in Japan for a whole year.

In contrast to www.prototypetour.eu and .de www.cyclonara.eu and .de won’t be a pure video blog however the contents will be posted nearer the time.

Moreover the route has been extended. After I will have cycled through South Korea the trip will continue in Fukuoka and not as stated before in Hiroshima.

Within the next weeks the web page will receive further updates. So I apologize in advance for mainly posting news about the technical progress until the tour starts on 25^thof May.

Special thanks to: Hubertus Neidhart from Webspace Provider Network for excellent web page hosting services; Lilith Pendzich;

Continue reading »]]> Realtime point and click adventure

The bicycle journey through Korea is already planned and I have even found three hosts already. I will start in Seoul and cycle to Pusan, but the stops in-between are still a secret. Also the first 500 km through Japan is planned. Please don’t be disappointed about me skipping Okinawa and Kyushu. It simply makes no sense booking a flight or a ferry to the (Air)port of Naha (Okinawa) which is minimum 300 € only to cycle around the island for five days and take the ferry or plane back from the same (air)port and pay another 300 € for transportation. As there are no ferries from Pusan to Kagoshima in the south of Kyushu I decided to skip it completely. It’s kind of sad as I really wanted to see Nagasaki so badly and was also curious about Kagoshima of course…

Oh, right now a new “brilliant” message reaches me. Recently I discovered a new video game genre called ’real time point and click adventure’. It’s one of those new browser games and called “book a flight including bicycle trailer from Tokyo to Seoul”. What’s new about this kind of genre? You can enter complete messages into certain text fields and will get a reply. So I asked Korean Air how and where to book my bicycle trailer, which is 120 cm by 60 cm by 50 cm. According to their player’s manual it’s possible to book sports equipment if the total lengths of three sides do not exceed 277 cm. So I booked the flight. Now they have got back to me telling me they are sorry but a bicycle trailer is not sports equipment. Well, yes I like real time point and click adventures, but in many cases they are more expensive than the usual 69,99 €…

Japan’s Ferry lines

Special thanks to: Natalie Canham, UK (text revision), Hubertus Neidhart from  Webspace Provider Network for excellent web page hosting services; Lilith Pendzich;

Continue reading »]]> Tokyo trip

Pictures of my Tokyo trip and the international Anime fair.

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The big bicycle trip through Japan approaches. Thus it takes a lot of resources to organize this event. A little side note in advance. I’m going to start in Korea. I have to begin my trip there due to the fact that there is no way to extend my stay in Japan after my working holiday visa expires. An advice for all who also would like to stay in Japan as long as possible. First make use of your tourist visa, extend it after the regular three months for another three months and make then use of your working holiday visa. It’s not possible the other way around!

Since last Friday I had only one day off which is why I still haven’t managed to do all the updates. This volume of work wasn’t predictable. Once I don’t work full time any more I can concentrate on blogging once again, so that there will be longer posts again.

Special thanks to: Hubertus Neidhart from  Webspace Provider Network for excellent web page hosting services; Lilith Pendzich;