Week 10 Touring Japan

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November 24th 2009

Published: November 24th 2009

Wed 18 Another day without a sleep-in. Ah well it could be worse, I could be getting up early to go to work. Today we began our trip South into the mountains towards Mount Fuji, where the air is colder and the autumn colour is at its height. We were up early to grab a 7.30am breakfast near the Kamakura train station where we caught a bus for the 30 minute journey to the Hokokuji Temple. The g... Read Full Entry

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Weatherqueen

Whether this is actually the start of my (very) early retirement or it just turns out to be a glorious long career break, is in the hands of the gods. I am travelling around the World on a 13 month tour and will enjoy every minute. For the next year or so I will be living a life that requires sunglasses. Happy Days ! Here is the whole route to date. You can zoom in or out and follow the route backwards if you are reading old blogs. ... full info

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This is one person’s portion of the fish dinner on Miyajima, plus extras like rice and soup

Avenue of ginko trees in Himeji

The Breast Gate at Himeji Castle - on one of the outer gates

Approaching Himeji Castle

Detail of Himeji Castle 2

Guy dressed in costume at Himeji

The castle walls splay outwards for strength and protection against earthquake

Our bullet train

Tunnels of Torii for business prosperity

Names of companies sponsoring some of the 10,000 torii

Padogda at Nara

One of the any tame deer at Nara

Russ and his wife Ai at the Nara yakiniku dinner

View from my room in Kyoto of a large temple

24th November 2009

robbie
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Hi Laines - finally a picture of you, you could have written all this and not been near the place!! now we know you are out there. Sounds truly amazing, loving the blog. continue to enjoy, love robbie

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