Tag: holidays
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Matsumoto-jo
On our epic local train journey home from Hakuba to Kisarazu we stopped off at Matsumoto to visit the famous Matsumoto-jo. While I was disappointed that it wasn’t covered in snow like every building was in Hakuba, we were still able to enjoy the pigeon-mountain on top of the castle.
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Photos from mum and dad’s camera
Photos from mum and dad’s camera of our time away in Hakone, Yokohama and Kamakura, along with some shots from mum and dad’s shinkansen trip up north to Akita and Sendai.
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Summer Holidays and Rice Paddies
I finished my last official duties at school today. I rode my bike at 8am and started ‘staff room supervision’ duties at 9am. I read the Japan Times newspaper for a while, then got bored and read some of the LOTR books from the Inter Library, then did some lesson planning and read textbooks until…
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Yokohama Yodel
Early in the morning we packed our bags and headed to the train station on our bicycles to catch the 8.30am express bus to Yokohama for our Golden Week Sunday excursion. We had been warned that during Golden Week it would take twice as long to go anywhere because of the crowds of people. Plus…
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