Two weeks in Europe went by without noticing. Many new places, many interesting people and here we are in Lyon – the capital of French food, for our last day. While food in Lyon is fantastic, our choice to have an event there was for a different reason – it is the city, where our […]
Obubu’s stay in Paris was long and exciting and we got to say goodbye to the capital city with a bang. The final event in Paris, was a tea party in collaboration with our friend pottery master from Kyoto Nanzan-san. In addition to making beautiful pottery, he is also a co-owner of the Giro Giro […]
With Obubu coming to France the Euro trip is on to its second half. All previous events in the UK, Hungary and Germany, were specifically focused on Obubu and Japanese green tea. In France we had many more collaborators to join us, with whom we shared the event space and time. Our first event in […]
Another fun day in Dusseldorf with Japanese tea enthusiast and a lot of Obubu tea! Having stayed up late chatting with Daisuke and Lucilia, our friends organizing all the stay in Germany, we didn`t rush to get up early and spent some time with their lovely daughters. The second event in Dusseldorf was scheduled in […]
After leaving Hungary we are off to Dusseldorf in Germany. Dusseldorf is famous for having a large Japanese population, no wonder we could see many Japanese restaurants all over the city. The city also host the Japan day in May-the biggest event of such kind in the country. Our tea events, though, are usually small and […]
Obubu`s Euro Tour continues from the Western Europe all the way to the Eastern neighbor – Hungary. With our friend and Obubu’s tea club member Ambrus we took the first half of the day to look around Budapest and got really moved by stunning European architecture and prosperous times it marked. Matsu-san couldn’t stop taking […]
Our UK trip started in London. We also got to visit Sheffield before going all the way to Preston. The University of Central Lancashire was having an open day so they gladly asked us to join the department of languages and treat some Japanese green tea to potential students, parents and friends. The previous two […]
Another pair of happy London underground stairs and we are on the way to Sheffield. The true steel city, where rain never stops, or so we thought. Sheffield, though, greeted us with a bright sunshine and a bunch of Japan Society committee members ready to help in the tea seminar. Having misplaced a connector between […]
Obubu is finally in Europe! Year by year Matsu-san used to go to the US. This year we have the UK, Hungary, Germany and France in the plan with London as the first stop. A trip across the world in 14 hours with luggage full of tea and tea ware and we got to London. […]