St Patrick's Day Parade

Today we went to the St Patrick's Day parade in Omotesando. Omotesando is the Sloane Street of Tokyo but on a much larger scale - it has every luxury brand you can think of and each shop is absolutely massive. Considering the price of property in Tokyo you'd be forgiven for thinking that maybe the designers charge so much for their products just so they can pay the rent on their Tokyo retail space.

Anyway the St Paddy's Parade was great fun - there was everything from the traditional (baton twirlers, Irish dancers, leprechauns, U2 tribute, walking pints of Guinness, penny whistle players, Irish wolfhounds and red setters) to the more tenuous (French Bretons, Japanese bagpipe players, and

Here is Aoife pretending she is in the parade - waving her flag and doing a twirl.