Category: Japan
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Some videos
I’ve taken a few videos at points over our travels. They now have a home on the web so I will share them with you. Click on the video name to view each video. In chronological order: Gannets flying – I know you all didn’t get enough of the gannets with the crazy number of…
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Final thoughts on Japan
In short we were a little dissapointed with Japan. I’m sure it was once a beautiful country but it is now scarred by unsympathetic and relentless urbanisation that makes green spaces are rare commodity. In the big cities there is rarely interesting modern architecture to draw the eye and give the place a bit of…
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Kyoto and beyond
Greetings all, it’s been a little while since our last post so I thought I’d do a quick update on what we’ve been up to. We’ve spent most of our time in Kyoto. Like most cities in Japan it is nothing much to look at save for the odd temple or shrine cropping up here…
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Hiroshima
Hope all is well with all you folks back home. I’m enjoying Japan. I love cute things and Japan is cute world magnified. You should see me in those toy shops, some serious regression going on. John got rather excited about all the different lego available, you can even play with it in store. Mega!…
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Hello from Japan!
For those that can’t read kanji that says ‘Hello from Japan!’, at least that’s what google translate tells me. We arrived on Sunday and currently taking it easy staying at Keith’s in Tokyo, finding our feet in what is a radically different place to Australia (unsurprisingly!). The journey here was pretty smooth and featured our…