Pimm's in the (Inokashirakoen) Park

My buddy Daniel and I had a lovely picnic at Inokashirakoen in Kichijoji the other day. Well, by picnic I mean we got wasted on Pimm's No.1. Apparently this is a very British way to wile away a warm spring afternoon. You might think of it as the British equivalent of Sangria in the US. Basically you take a bottle of Pimms and mix in lemonade (we used ginger ale instead because CC Lemon is about as close to lemonade as you can get here), then put fruit and berries in it. Finally, mysteriously, you add peeled cucumbers (it is a British drink after all) which naturally over-powers everything else. After the third cup, though, it started tasting less and less like a liquid salad.

The passers-by were intrigued with the colorful pitcher, or maybe it was with the brashness with which two foreigners were openly getting hammered. A policeman on a bike went by at one point, purposefully straining his neck in the opposite direction.