Nagano

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Before we left the mountains we decided to spend a day or two in Nagano and its surroundings. We had a quick look at the local temple though we're starting to see a bit of a theme there, so maybe not too many more Japanese temples. The following day we headed out to Yudanaka Onsen famous for its bathing monkeys who seem to live a happy life of mostly sitting in hot springs up a snowy mountain. There were a lot of them and they were very cute especially when they threw poo at Sara. On the way back we stopped at the village of Obuse famous for its chesnuts and wooden pavements where we had a traditional Japanese lunch ( I think ) although Sara always waits until I'm half way through my soup before asking me if it's soup or a bowl to wash our hands in. ( It's soup OK, just very soapy soup ).

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Photos

That's right, keep kicking.
( the older ones find it much harder to learn )

A monkey steps in to ruin my photo of some snow
( ...well you try sitting here thinking up captions all the time )

Comments

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The two of you
So nice to have a photo of the two of you together. Even if you are lounging in the hot pool.