Nick in Nikko

Nicholas 'Chad' Bruse and his video camera (permanently attached) flew in to keep us company the last couple of weeks. We took him to Akhibara, electronics mecca where Nick's filming of an apparently top-secret robotic dog at one of the stores nearly got us kicked out; Yoyogi Park and Nikko, the latter destination one that his VC particularly enjoyed.

And then in spite of the obsessive claim of the Japanese that climbing Mt Fuji outside July and August was 'abunai!' (danger!) he did it anyway.

When he left we sighed and said 'thank god no more video camera' and only then did we realised we craved the mini-screen stardom that it afforded us. The next week we went out and bought our own and have been torturing people ever since...