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Shirakawa day 14; Drinking sake under the stars
... De Gassho-Zukuri huizen met hun dikke A-vormige strooien daken, gebouwd om de druk van de sneeuw die hier met hopen valt in de winter (hoewel dat nu met 38 graden moeilijk te geloven is) te weerstaan, geven het dorp zijn typische uiterlijk.
Terwijl ik terugloop via de langere wandelroute sterft de drukte al snel uit en kan ik genieten van de rust die de streek met zich mee brengt. Onder het gebrom van de vele libellen ...
And we're back online!
... a special mushroom planting drill bit. The mushroom spores are on wooden plugs, which we hammered into the holes. We watched our host go on a rampage with his backhoe to find trees for us to inoculate, knocking down what would amount to a small forest. The 1500 mushroom plugs we planted will be available to eat in two years!
We also did some other stuff like package dried sweet potatoes (they taste kind of like dates and are very good). We ...
Training!!
Ok it's so, so late but I am going to try and write down what has happened so far... no doubt I'll miss heaps out and it may be months before I get to the actual living in Sapporo part of my story but hey, this is something!!
So Monday the 10th of January I left Perth and flew to Narita airport, Tokyo. I had an uneventful 4 hour stopover in Denpasar, Indonesia of which the most interesting thing that happened was I called Dad for about 5 minutes from an airport ...
Boxing day (if youre in NZ lol)
... which was cool. Not quite Chiaki, but one of the conductors was 17 which is still amazing. Did I mention that there was a kotatsu at my host mothers sisters house ;D. (Jelly?)
The town that this was in was only about 60km away or something but its all through populated areas so it took aaages. The road there had one touge like section but there was traffic...
Dinner was soba and then ...
Further Tokai-mura Adventures
... roads and pathways winding between them. We didn’t see anything earth-shattering, but some really pretty parks, big beautiful trees and bamboo, and nice quiet temples and shrines. We also rode by an elementary school as it was letting out for the day. It’s always fun to see the kids, be stared at, and have them shout “hello!” practicing their English ...
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