Climbing Mt BicCamera

So….

Kids and lovely wife are off out to enjoy the cherry blossom and would I like to come ? Let me see. Middle aged man, day off, bored and the options are :

• Attend flower-worshipping festival, enjoying the symbolism of transient life and ephemeral beauty
• Go electronics shopping

Fairly clear answer there. I’ve seen cherry blossom before. It’s good. Recommend it. You can also see it online. Here you go :

Save yourself fighting over the blue groundsheet. Enjoy this online moment of hanami gorgeousness.

With that decision made, it’s off to Shinjuku to worship at the shrine of Bic Camera. There are other branches of Bic Camera ( at least two ) closer to home but these are smaller affairs. The amuse bouches compared to the full Shepherds Pie.  Shinjuku is the mother-ship and I gravely accepted my mission to rendezvous and dock. Set new Polar GPS watch thing and record the attempt for posterity and the enjoyment of future generations. Also to try to claim from Paul W the 10Km or so round trip to add to my miserable training total.

Here we go :

Path

As you can see, I orbited around Shibuya for a while before engaging walk-drive on the trainers and hyperspacing off to Shinjuku.

Mission statistics :

Mt BicCamera