Let's Get Drunk for the Holidays!

Beaujolais Nouveau has hit Japan. This was a big enough deal that some of my students actually mentioned it to me a week or so ago in their anticipatory excitement. Now, I know next to nothing about wine and what I do know, I learned from the movie Sideways (which I highly recommend, by the way). But this Beaujolais Nouveau stuff?

The Hakone Yunessun Spa lets you swim in it. Here's a funny Keith Olbermann clip about one of the more enjoyable aspects of living in Nihon:


Grapes of bath

Yes, bath time can be family and friends fun time. Just add alcohol!