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  • Bats!

    There were more bats on the usual bat flight path tonight than what I’ve ever seen before! Literally ran out to take a photo. Beautiful sunset, too.

  • When Your Girlfriend Gets Bored

    Before: After: Except the girlfriend wasn’t just an organising freak, but also a glutton who proceeded to eat half of the bread crusts pictured that were all meant to be fishing baits, rendering the organising mostly meaningless. The more important question is: What can I eat next?

  • Japan Ski Trip Jan 2015: The Food

    Photo dump of food that didn’t make it into any other travel posts!

  • Japan Ski Trip Jan 2015: Hakuba, Nagano, Japan

    Japan Ski Trip Jan 2015: Hakuba, Nagano, Japan

    Geek fail! I never noticed that WordPress doesn’t keep draft revisions after an entry is published (my blank placeholder in this case; which makes total sense now that I think about it), so I didn’t think to keep a backup and lost a whole typed up entry pending photo upload. Let’s try this again. In…

  • Fruit Platter on Qantas Flight QF22 (Jan 2015)

    To my surprise, the hotel we stayed at served a different fruit at breakfast buffet every morning, so I wasn’t as desperate for fresh fruits on my return trip as I normally would. I already signed up for this, though, so fruit platters I got. The main trays looked extra empty because I took out…

  • Asian Cafe Bowl Bowl, Narita International Airport Terminal 2, Japan

    Richard has had various Japanese foods during the trip including tonkatsu, curry (cheated by having the two-in-one tonkatsu curry rice), ramen, karaage and yakiniku. The next on the list is sushi, and we wouldn’t accept any alternative, even if it means having airport sushi! There weren’t a lot of restaurants available after customs at Terminal…

  • Hotel Oak Forest, Hakuba, Nagano, Japan: Meals

    In true foodie spirit, I took a picture of almost every course I ate at the hotel we stayed at for the ski trip, and split the food section into this entry of its own! As mentioned in the post for Hotel Oak Forest (ホテル オークフォレスト) itself, the meals included in our ski package were…

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