Nikko Niigata

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2435;です・schlechtes gefuehl ... jaja nasse Klamotten sind halt nicht so angenehm.

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... and nabe one evening, a hot pot dish with vegetables, tofu, seafood and meats - all very good. We also went out to an Izakaya one evening, which serves pub-like finger food. We had our own separate room and left the ordering to Masa and Lily. I think I can safely say that everything that we ate was very different from the food we´ve had in Canada, even though in some cases, the dishes were familiar (like tempura). We ...

... came and went so I though - OK there;s a bit of life it will be Ok. Then I started to think at nearly 8 that there really should be a boat by now so I rang the ferry office and got an automated message in Japanese. I then looked at my guidebook and saw that it was an 18hour journey and did the maths (it was meant to arrive at 4.30 the next morning). Ooops. After cursing myself and realising I was in the middle of nowhere with no ...

... red. I purchased a few bottles to bring home, but now I can't fit everything in my main bag. After the festival I went with some other foreigners that I was introduced to and we had dinner at a Chinese place. The food was really good, and we ate quite a lot. We went back to drinking at an Irish pub next. It went long into the night, again I got back to the hotel at 2am.

... driftwood and rocks. He uses a lot of algae eating animals, each tank had many little shrimp and usually a siamese flying fox or two. I'll put some photos up, but my ****** photography doesn't do the tanks justice. When I got back I went out to a bar that was recommended by the hotel receptionist. It turned out that they were having a private party, but the owner pointed me down the road to another foreigner bar. It was called Northern ...

... at the hotel and I shared a joke about the amount of snow, p**haps a dry one given that we w**e based in a ski resort, aft** which I headed out to the slope for a full day of lessons. I struggled in the morning, my legs w**e cold and tired from the previous day. The heavy snowfall had produced a cushion of really deep powd**, it's find if you are trav**sing at speed but when I stopped, it was like being trapped in a sand bank, sinking into a lay** I couldn't escape from. Turning ...

... the league's first All-Star Game. On Dec. 29th, before the game and during halftime I wandered aroun the arena to view the big, cutout cardboard postes of the league's All-Stars. Images that screamed for kids to stand next to 'em and have their picture taken, so when they got back home they could show 'em to their grandparents ...

We decided to head to the Japanese Alps, for you can guess it snowboarding ....... oh yea. It took 3 trains and a little longer than expected, 3 trains and 5 hours. It also would have helped if we didn't bypass the station we had to get off at, have to wait an hour for the return train, miss or hostel pickup and not have a monkies how to get to the hostel........ Just when ...

... We learned in our travel books that Niigata is famous for it's rice. It exports more rice than any other city in Japan. And since it's renowned for it's rice, it is equally well known for it's sake. Amy, Joanne, Jason and I went exploring a bit after our show, and found this adorable little place to have dinner/sake tasting. It was almost empty, and had no English signs what-so-ever. We peaked our heads in, and the "Mom" of the restaurant ...

Went for a ride on the bullet train to Niiagata which is about 150 minutes NE of Tokyo. There is some magnificent countryside and mountains on the way with lots of small farms and lots of activities using very small farm machinery. The equipment looked a bit like dinky toys compared to the farm machinery in Australia. Not too much English spoken here and no signs that I ...