china. mayb u bcome nr. 1 . but its mo easy 2 go 2 d top than 2 stay at top. am xageratin foothbath.2hrs a day. try 2 sell in front of footbath. sold nothin. so. whats my phsycho problem with luz? i d go back ?! ! why? i mean i dont even like her. noble sense of responsibility, a feelin guilty, a wishin 4 d past 2 come back, hope, a payment 4 my sins, dee, ununderstandable love, stupid romanticism? i know, 2 much perverse mind playin. 2day focused on her. we, 2gether again. both unhappy. i dont like [View Full Entry]

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To me, the attraction here was the array of food & pastry and, of coz, the Music Box Museum. There were lots of places around for main meals and tea breaks. And, not forgetting, delicious pastries to buy home to treat everyone. We had even found a confectionery that was better than Ishiya's Shiroi Koibito. It's "Le Tao". It had a few branches at Otaru targeting different needs, such as a a chocolate boutique, cheesecake speciality store etc. Le Tao was also very generous in providing samples. Tip: Ask and you will be given. Their earl grey chocolate biscuit and petite [View Full Entry]

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Whoops forgot to hit Publish on this yesturday... was pretty outa it when I wrote this due to lack of sleep: ===== So todays my final day on the island of Hokkaido. Yesterday visited the Sapporo Beer museum as well as the city of Otaru. The Sapporo Beer museum was smaller then I pictured it, but not too bad. Most of the signage was in Japanese but I got the gist of it. My favorite bit was these little models they had setup that made it look like beer came from a Santas workshop type atmosphere. Made me chuckle and reminded [View Full Entry]

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Since the Yuki Matsuri was going on there was no chance of getting a hostel in Sapporo so I made a call to a backpackers hostel in Otaru and scored us some bunks for the night. Otaru is about 30 minutes by express or 50 by local train from Sapporo. We had to be in the hostel by 9pm and we ended up getting into Otaru around 7:30pm but we had another mission, we were looking for another Snow Festival. While I was reading the Japan Times Online I found a travel article about the Sapporo festival and about a small [View Full Entry]

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