Garden Hotel Matsumoto

... especial aquel paraje natural donde lo bueno es perderse, buscar los miradores elevados, admirar los cerezos y fotografiarlos junto al enorme contraste del intenso amarillo de un campo de flores. A la hora de comer... o mejor dicho... cuando tuvimos hambre, entramos en "COCO ICHIBANYA Curry House". <br><br>¿Qué comimos? ¡Arroz al curry! Pero no pienses que es tan fácil... El plato es tan sencillo ...

Settling in in Matsumoto. Spent about 4 1/2 hours on trains today, slow one from Nikko to Utsunomiya, a shinkansen to Omiya, another shinkansen to Nagano, then another slow train to Matsumoto. Signs of civilization at the Matsumoto station - a Starbucks!<br><br>Hoping that I can find the castle tomorrow. The ryokan has bicycles to lend, so I'm going to try and ...

... das ganze. <br>Die Maki v**kaufen sie hi** im Sup**markt in ganzen Rollen.. .sozusagen zum selbstzuschneiden. <br><br>Heute haben wir uns** Bento gepackt und sind auf den **stbesten B**g (es ist d** Omine-yama gewesen) in Nagano gestiegen. So welchen Weg nehmen wir, als sich d** Weg teilte - die 1.3km od** die 1.8km ?? Andi entschied die 1.3 km - nicht ganz so hoch, weil mir ja sonst die puste ausgeht... jaja. D** Weg war sup**steil und eh** v ...

... br>lol...but i have also a lot of experiences in the other way...here examples...<br><br>hitchhiking...quite easy, even as japanese never do it...funny thing is they invite you to food or give you money...almost always... i refuse always three times, and then i take what they want to get rid of...funny behavior, theoretically it schould be possible to earn money that way.<br><br>Otherwise japan is nice, very clean, not as ultramodern as you might think, also it seems that ...

From Obuse, we travelled further along the train line, into the mountains and to a place called Yudanaka. In the winter you can go skiing around here but obviously there was no snow whilst we were here, just a bit of rain. The reason we came here was to visit the snow monkeys. These monkeys are macaques which come down the valley and are partial to bathing in the natural onsen (hot springs). We got a bus ...

Alright, so I ended up getting roughly an hour of sleep, but I think it was less since I kept waking up. I let one of the Japanese kids sleep in my room since he was locked out and ended up on the couch and then trying to sleep in one of the classrooms. After Nanami and I stayed up talking all night, I really didn't want to sleep that much. It was a lot to digest, but it was a lot of fun. Breakfast came and went and then we had a final Q&amp;A ...

... and were able to ask them what they thought. We got some really interesting reactions, especially on the Nathan Book, which is fairly controversial. They didn't fully agree that kids were ridiculously crazy in the classroom, although there were plenty of incidences of it happening. After an amazing dinner, we once again broke out the alcohol ...

... foods (weirdly enough, I'm having more fried foods here than in America) and non-sensical Japanese variety shows. Not sure if it's Kamikochi talking or what, but I feel ready at this time to get back to everyday life in Boston. Got to tackles my demons, fail some more experiences and then fix all these tiny things that need to be done--lease, pictures, mail--the list goes on an on. But before that: tomorrow is Matsumoto castle and Nagao Zenkoji temple. And then onto Tokyo. -mike

... Sammlung an japanischen Holzdrucken (die die Japan** von 1700 bis 1900 p**fektioni**t haben und die van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec und Picasso beeinflusst haben) ausgestellt w**den, und endlich mal wied** ein Besuch in einem Onsen gefuellt. Bish** war ich in Honshu imm** zu weit weg von Onsenstaedten, ab** hi** gibt es einen Vorort mit vulkanischem Wass**. Das Wett** war heute sehr schoen nachdem es gest**n ja sehr bewoelkt und ...

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