Okubiwako Makino Grand Park Hotel
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Letters Home - Japan - Day 2
... and a 24" shelf space for pasta. There is a more than ample selection of teas, and a 12” shelf of coffee. Tomato sauce and cheese were hard to find, and I am told that the cheese is of very poor quality and taste. There are no frozen pizzas, and no ice cream. The produce looked good, but most is unrecognizable, save for the apples. Chicken rules the meat counter, while beef runs a distant second. There is an abundance ...
Letters Home-Japan-Day 1
... was not yet over as there was still a 2-3 hour trip from Nagoya to Hikone. Immediately outside of the arrivals lounge, was the airport train station. They helped me purchase a ticket with Yen, and soon we were on the train. The trains like everything else here, are sparkling clean, and it quietly, smoothly and quickly glided through the night darkness. The nearly empty train passed through many ...
Road Trip!
... br> What we saw of Hikone town was beautiful and the small castle had a wonderful outlook over Biwa Lake. For lunch we had a whole grilled fish, on Catherine's request and finished it off with some green tea ice cream! Totally satisfied, we jumped in the car and went on our way back to Izu; 5 hours later, we arrived, hungry and ...
Japan Birdman Rally 2011
Up at 6 to get a train 2 Hikone for the 34th annual Japan Birdman Rally. Basically its like the Bognor birdman competition where everyone throws themselves off a pier attached to ridiculous flying machines but the Japanese take on it is that the flying machines are actually amazing and fly for ages. We went for the "duration" category today (because the length category would have involved getting up even earlier) so to start we saw speed which was ...
Badderen!
Deze dag met de ferry vanuit Nagasaki een dagtripje gemaakt naar Ioujima. Dit eiland staat vooral bekend om zijn Onsen en een katholieke kerk. Dus dat is wat ik gedaan heb! Nog afgesproken met een zwitser van mijn hostel om bier te gaan drinken met uitzicht op de zee. Was gezellig en leuk. Hier de foto`s!
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