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Hotel Oak Forest, Hakuba, Nagano, Japan
For my third ski trip in Hakuba (白馬), Nagano Prefecture (長野県), the 9 of us (later 8 as one left earlier) stayed at Hotel Oak Forest (ホテル オークフォレスト). Hotel Oak Forest: Access Hotel Oak Forest isn’t located conveniently near any slopes, which seems to be a common feature of all hotels and ryokans within the…
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Seen in Japan… Only in Japan
Seen in Japan, and probably only in Japan. Oh Japan.
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Seen in a Restaurant in Japan
At least there’s an English sign for you gaijins who can’t read or speak even a lick of Japanese, so appreciate it, but never mistake!
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Marukame, Hakuba, Nagano, Japan
Richard and I finally joined the rest of the guys out for dinner in town tonight, the last night of our ski trip. It’s yakiniku time! The hotel was kind enough to take the six of us to our restaurant of choice tonight: Marukame (まるかめ) — a sumibi yakiniku place about a 5-minute drive away…
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Fruit Platter on Qantas Flight QF21 (Jan 2015)
Fruiting up before I hit the Japanese winter for the third ski trip of my life! If any of this looks familiar, well… I didn’t have the soy milk and orange juice as usual. And the normal flight menu for you non-precious snowflakes:
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The Tomatoes in the Future!
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Barbecues, Because Australia
The season of overeating continues at the first barbecue event, in which Vickie went full-on introvert mode and only hang out with the resident canines and avoided all eye contact with the humans. I need to learn this social thing. And more overeating (no complaints!) at a second barbecue event the next day on New…
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