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Travel Blogs from Izu
Mt. Fuji
... was really peaceful. Unfortunately the bread rolls we'd bought had peanut butter in them - the Japanese really do have a sweet tooth. So we put a banana in and hey presto, a pretty nutritious lunch! Unfortunately it cloudy it of a cloudy day and at first we were worried that we wouldn't see anything! Luckily, fuji emerged a couple of times for us...you'd suddenly look round and be like 'oh there it is' once the clouds had ...
My longest blog in ths trip so far
This is the longest blog so far in this trip, cause a lot of time spent on trains
Took JR, train and train again to get to Fuji train station, total of about 2 something hours.
I have to make a comment, the worst washroom I went to China was still better than the one in Fuji train station :(
I forgot to chk the weather for Fuji, the weather at the Mt is 10 degree lower than the station. It was cold in the station, probably mid teens ...
Trains, Cable Cars and Pirate Ships!
... of the year. It was very beautiful and we seemed to have been the only western tourists who had read about this in the guide book.
Back to Tongendai we experienced the most bizarre part of the day - a sail on the lake on a pirate ship. The ships (there seemed to be 4 or 5 running today) had fake cannons protruding out of the side and masts and full rigging and the occasional statue of a pirate and some treasure chests (which actually held the life jackets) - ...
The Elusive Mt Fuji
... supermarket and bought some meat balls on skewers (they could have been chicken or pork - it was hard to tell but they were tasty) and some sushi and a couple of cakes for our evening meal. The clouds have come in and our hotel room window is almost level with them now and it’s started torrential rain again. Hopefully it’s not going to be like this tomorrow as we are going on cable cars up into the mountains and are meant to ...
Japan moto trip (Izu Skyline)
Day 2: Izu Skyline
All I can say is, you MUST ride this, and any/everywhere on the Izu Peninsula at some point in your life. You must do this especially if you consider yourself a keen moto tourer. The scenery and corner carving cahoonery is OSM (panorama). OSM. Sometimes when you read moto magazines they talk about an ear to ear grin when riding a bike. I had one of these. A lot. It was OSM. I felt so ecstatic because here I was, a total newbie to ...