CharRie's Café: February 2010

Sunday, February 21, 2010

My Bike Journey to Melburn

I've been lazy and just finished sorting out my great memories of bike trip to Australia. I miss the weather back thereee, it is snowing here in Nagoya today, awwwww! so I would like to share some pics of my holidays to keep warm here like the sumer time...

Riding in Melbourne is great. It's really flat and everything is close together so it is easy to ride around.

I went to see my friends there. I met these lovely messengers at CMWC Tokyo.

Brian & Lane at CMWC Tokyo

The funniest guys in Melbourne! Gotta see Brian & Lane if you are ever around there. They know how to throw a party. It is really great to have cool friends all over the world.

Melbourne was over 37℃, I was just about sit down in the shade of a tree... then 2 guys on bikes came up and said "Are you Brian's friend?" I was like "Yeees..." Mmmm, I recognized him by his dread locks hair from CMWC tokyo. We didn't know each other, he is from Dublin and Im from Nagoya but we start getting some drinks and became friends. It was just an accident that we met in Melbourne but it happens when you ride a bicycle!

spread out my calendars

New Years Party started...

Swimming in the living room!?"

swiming in the living room

OMG these guys were so hilarious! They have a swimming pool in the living room, RAD!!!

Ausie × German BBQ

Exploring the city...

Lots of good coffee shops in Fitzroy"

NUTS! tee & Love Wheels Nagoya Calendar. *Thank you*

Lane looked cool on NUTS! tee & Love Wheels Nagoya Calendar.

Thanks a lot to everyone who made my trip so much fun, to all the great people I met who helped me out, put me up and showed me an awesome time. All the things made me want to move into Australia more. Im definitely coming back soon. See ya!

Don't stop! GO TRAVEL THE WORLD!

My Bike Journey to Sydney → HERE!
More pics of Melburn → HERE!

My Bike Journey to Sydney

Hello mate! I went to travel around Sydney & Melbourne with my best friend Nikon & NISHIKI for my new years holidays. It is summer time there, Gotta Go now!

Sydney Opera House

My biggest reason to come out to Sydney was...

Meg and Tarn

"MEET THE MEG!" :)
Tarn, Rie and Meg

As you can expect through the Candy Cranks blog, Meg is one of the greatest and nicest people you ever meet! I met Meg at CMWC Tokyo and became great friends. I didn't know anyone in Sydney but thanks Meg! Candy Cranks screwed up my courage to make a lot of new friends in Sydney and all over the globe!

Meg and her partner are so kind and took me a lot of cool places. They've got their own work space for bikes hidden the back stage of the Sydney Theater Company, looks soo sick! I was riding my bike on the stage as an actress in front of NO audience, hehe... :) (Rie in Sydney by Meg)

BIKE ONLY

Emily & J just found this warehouse, so D O P E...

This is warehouse, so D O P E...

sophia

Great to see messengers working in the city!

AZ burger...

I like riding in the city to explore bikes and coffee. It is the best way to feel the local culture, I think★

I am a big fan of her blog btw...

bike trip to sydney

Traveling with bicycle is really amazing...

Bicycle leads me to meet great people. I like Japanese proverb;

一期一会(Ichigo-Ichie)： Treasure every encounter, for it will never recur.

I was so impressed that people in Australia are so nice and friendly. Also Wine, Beer and Coffee are absolutely my type of taste. I will definitely move in this year!

Thanks to Meg, Tarn, Emily, J, Sydney Sunday Crew and messengers. It was great to meet u all! Awesome time. Cheers Sydney!

More pics HERE!

Saturday, February 20, 2010

♥Chocolate NUTS!♥

Nagoya girls organized the NUTS alley cat race this time as Valentine's special. We made check point easier than usual for any girls can win and hid some funny & weird questions related to LOVE. (e.g. what would you say when you propose to your girl friend? / What’s the name of love hotel in your sight?)

Last check point: You must put make-up on (lipstick & cheeks) and make kiss-mark with your name on it.

THE BICYCLE made by dude’s kisses…♥

♥Best kissers♥

After the race, NUTS! girls wore mama's apron themed like a sweet home and had chocolate party at local café in Nagoya. KAz (Miss February: Love Wheels Calendar) is very crazy about chocolate, she just wanted to play with chocolate and bicycle together, that’s it.