We wanted to go to Omosako first thing today , but he was out harvesting until lunch time .This was bad news as we ..read more

              Today we started off at Momotaro koi farm . Our aim was to do exactly the same as we ..read more

        The night before i was walking with our agent , and he told me i was driving with a Dutch dealer , and that they had planned to go to Matsue today . Although i like ..read more

                   Hearty breakfast,  and then off to Sakuma koi farm . This farm is mainly ..read more

                    Today was our last day in Niigata , before we ..read more

Woke up a little bit groggy today ..read more

Today is the of the Nagaoka koi show  so we based the day around it ..read more

                   Today we visited a new breeder on the way to koide , and found two very nice Tancho  Kujaku ..read more

                          Good evening and welcome to the short version of the blog . Today was the best day to start cutting back on detail , other wise , the blog would take an hour to read , and five to write lol ..read more

          Over the years , i have spent many hours writing the blogs , and hope you have enjoyed them . But i have to shorten things down a little , as im almost working 18 hours a day while in Japan . I will try and do what i can , but for now it will be where we visited and vidoes /pics of the koi . Very sorry but its just too time consuming , and looking at the stats for the website , its seems social media is more popular than blogs . So here ia where we have been today .         First stop Kase , lots of nie small nisai , metalics and doitsu . 27-35cm approx .      Then it was ..read more