Chie and went to Il Lupone for dinner. It is about 5 minutes walk from the apartment, and it is one of our favorite Italian restaurants. We had a lot of nice food and a fun time 🙂
If we have dinner at home we return too quickly to the news on TV. And though the earthquake news have been mixed now with news from Libya it is still too much in the long run.
This morning I got an email and an automatic phone call from the Swedish Foreign Ministry telling me that the Swedish Radiation Safety Agency recommended all Swedes within a radius of 250 km from Fukushima #1 to take iodine pills. And if you could not get hold of it they were provided by the embassy.
So better safe than sorry, I got on my bike to Meguro station from where I took the Namboku line to Roppongi-Ichome. While I was riding the subway cell-phones suddenly started to beep in the cart. And the train stopped with the driver explaining that we stopped because of an earthquake. My first while in the subway, though I could feel nothing.
Arriving at Roppongi-Ichome I have to pass through a garden terrace before I could get to the embassy. A plum tree was in full bloom looking like a pink lollipop 🙂
In difference to the US Embassy almost next doors the Swedish Embassy has no guards and is always open. The only person there was a single guy sitting behind glass in the reception. I showed him my passport and I got 10 iodine pills.
Then I went home. Stopping only at Tokyu Store to buy water and strawberries, and then a final stop to get a haircut.
It was not only I that had an idea to go to the gym today. It was packed to the brim. Most likely because this is the only time most people can go to gym the past week as the gym has closed early due to the irregular train traffic and cyclic power outage.
I had a plan to start out with deadlifts as my first back exercise. But the equipment was occupied by a guy doing squats. I thought I start with something else and then do deadlifts but I had to abandon the plan as the same guy was still doing squats after I had finished my training and stretching 1.5 hours later. I think he was aiming for frog legs 😉