Just as my hometown Brisbane has about three weeks or so on average of what you could really call 'winter', meaning the requirement of at least three layers of clothing (and maybe a woolly scarf, but only for effect), so too Tokyo has a run of days where the temperature and humidity combine to offer about two weeks of really hot uncomfortable summer requiring the wearing of almost no layers, except that would be illegal in public.
(*wins Joyce prize for the longest ever sentence on this blog)
That was today. Temperatures aiming into the high thirties during the day and from early in the morning it was already 28 degrees. It was a day I was feeling fortunate to be in the office, except I was due to leave in the early afternoon to make my way across town for a seminar. Not the day to be outside.
...which didn't stop others though.
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| Wall of cool |
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| Summer, you can hear it here |
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| ...and here |
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| At least I wasn't there |
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| Even the water looked hot |
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| Near the seminar venue... |
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| ...the end of the line for a block of buildings. Coming down for a streetscape renovation. |
With university holidays coming up later this week, I have a not so secret plan to escape to the south for a couple of weeks. How far south? I'll keep you posted. Of course.
[Camera : iPhone 6S, 9.21am, 2.09pm; Lumix TZ-85, 1.39pm, 5.56pm; 9 August 2016]
