What’s the best thing about winter? That’s the question, and the answer isn’t Christmas (not in Japan anyway) its white, powdery and it everywhere! And no, not cocaine, snow!! I have often felt slightly ripped off by Mother Nature living in London, as although winters are bloody freezing, they really bring a lot if any snow. I am there fore a big fan of the white stuff and get a childish sense of excitement just from seeing a bit of brownish slush under a car tire in London, so when I decided to travel up to Fukui on the basis of my second round of snowboarding, little could have prepared me for the royal dumping that would be unleashed on the city, let alone the mountain ski resorts. This was the following week from snowboarding, and
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