Hotel Olympia Nagano

... We did notice that we were missing the hot broth. Some of the locals started lining up for a table. The owner/waiter finally delivered our broth and then had the audacity to tell us to eat quickly! Come on! It's not our fault! We swiftly finished our meal. I'd chalk up this meal as more of an "experience" as oppose to getting a hardy meal.

We continued with our sightseeing. On the way to Matsumoto castle, we stopped by ...

... vehículos y evita el peligro de colisiones, incendios, etc.

El día va oscureciendo y llegamos a "ROPPONGI", una de las zonas más modernas de Tokyo y en donde se encuentran sus tres edificios más altos: la Torre de Tokio (333 m), la Torre Mori (238 m) y la Torre Mid Town (248 m). ¡Menudo StarBucks Coffe!, ¡vaya tienda de Louis Vuitton!... todo aquello que quieras imaginar en marcas de alto ...

... some money on cab fare. Hopefully I can remember to ride on the left side of the street and the other vehicles remember to do the same. I'm also hoping that the rumors of English-speaking guides are true.

Adjusting my expectations... I had thought I'd zip through the castle and get to Kyoto early. Probably not. Everything takes longer than you think.

... Natto ohne Reis nur pur mit etwas Senf und Sojasauce nicht schmeckt. Wenig Natto mit viel Reis - okay. Viel Natto ohne Reis - no go. das wusst ich eigentlich schon seit dem letzten besuch in Japan...ab** man kanns ja nochmal v**suchen, weils doch so gesund ist.
Jetzt haben wir nochmal eine Nacht dazugebucht und wollen morgen etwas ins gebirgig**e Landesinn**e mit den Zug, mal sehen ob wir den Bären doch noch zu gesicht bekommen... (hoffenlich nicht)

... standing there...yelling at people to get them inside...i think thats called service industy in newspeak.

ok, enough for now...i think it is clear why i write in english...in german i can not express myself anymore as well, i bore myself while writing...so read you next time...maybe in german, maybe in english...
btw, its very distressing to log in after 2 weeks without inet to see only 1 mail...thx wew...
can someone pease write me, otherwise i feel so lonely

... ones were burning hot. It was very relaxing and you could see a nice view of the valley and the monkeys hopping about around you. As we were right at the bottom of the valley we could see people really high above us but they couldnt see us very well, which was only a good thing. We then went back to the park and stayed for a while longer before getting the bus and train to Nagano, the main city of that ...

... togeth 1000yen (7 quid) for dinner- 2 bowls of noodles, and then went to sleep broke and dreading that we would be stuck there forever. In the morning we arose early to try and get money but no-one could speak any english, nightmare! In the end there was one man from the bank who came and showed us where there was a 3rd atm, that we were unaware of, and sure enough it ejected those lovely yen notes for us :). We were very relieved, and went back to get our bags then left!

... ours - guess pregnant women and women with young children CAN travel and see these amazing places!

We rushed back to catch the bus back to the train station where we walked around the town of Nagano for a few hours. It's well worth a look to see one of the oldest shrines in Japan - apparently there is an underground room where you can walk underneath the shrine and discover the secrets of life - but apparently this secret can only be ...

I went on a ski trip from February 19 to February 23 in Nagano at Shiga Kogen which hosted the women's downhill, the super Giant slalom, slalom, and all snowboarding events at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games. We got a great deal on the trip at the travel agency on the Osaka University campus. I went with 4 other girls: 1 from Mongolia, 1 from China, and 2 from Korea. We actually spoke mostly in Japanese which was the common language between us. We took ...

... and ice-skating rink. We went through the rather disappointing museum and through to the ice skating rink to find the lights off and half the ice melted. It was then that we realised that the sign out the front in Japanese probably said the rink was closed due to maintenance.

We left M-Wave, had lunch and then had to wait ages for another ...