The simple answer is to find a resaurant that has menus in English as well as Japanese, it’s useful to also know that you are in the right place! Another one from Ken
Monthly archives: March 2025
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Ken visited Japan recently for a bit R&R, he couldn’t resist sending us this map-centric menu from a local bar.
Elizabeth saw this in the foyer of a building in SW1. The blurb says: “Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain – A Different Place, 2022 This wall painting is based on a method of cartographic writing that correlates a letter of the alphabet with each of the earth’s 24 time zones. […]
Marc-Tobias sent me this. “Seen randomly at a German hospital. Apparently a German computer brandhttps://www.terra-computers.de/. Looking closely it really is a world map, not a fantasy maps. Theysmoothed the edges it became also unrecognizable.
Reinder spotted this in a Utrecht restaurant “… in restaurant ‘De ontdekking’ [The discovery]” Quite something!
Berl said “We saw these two at the top of Monte Igueldo in Donostia (San Sebastian) in the Basque region of Spain. Apparently Basque bears no relationship to any other language.”
