A Ride in the Neon Sun (PB) - Description
It's not easy landing unprepared in a country like Japan. The eccentricities
of the calendar, the indecipherable postal system, not to mention the alien
alphabet, language and culture, have all to be confronted before the
disorientated traveller can feel at ease.
Trying to ride a bicycle through the
streets of one of the most congested cities in the world would seem to compound
your problems. For Josie Dew, however, with over 200,000 miles already clocked
up in the saddle few things could be more challenging - or for the reader of A
RIDE IN THE NEON SUN, more wonderfully entertaining.
From Kawasaki to Kagoshima, Odawara to Okinawa, Josie discovered a nation
rich in dazzling contrasts.
The neon and concrete were there in greater
abundance than even she had imagined, but so too were bottomless baths, love
burgers, long-tailed cocks, musical toilet rolls, oriental Elvises, cardboard
police and a sense of fun belying the population's rigourous work ethic.
Far from being the reserved race that she had heard about, the Japanese
welcomed her into their homes with bountiful smiles and bows - and
skin-scorching baths.
