Ohayou!
Peace park.
Lots of tourists about. In frustration I hit this bell as hard as I could and turned a fair few heads LOL!
Find your Zen.
Beauty in the small things. Japan is full of it!
These eggs have been dipped in the hot springs of Owakudani, Hakone. When they’re dipped the eggs go black! Amazingly it doesn’t happen at any other hot spring in Japan but this one!
I HAD to buy a few, apparently you love to be 100, or gain 100 years if you have one so I forced a few of the group to have one as it’s 5 for $5 and I sure as hell wasn’t gonna eat 5 eggs and live to be 500!
Jimmy, he’s so awesome. Love the guy! Not a bad bone in his body, those kind of peoples always impress.
Mum & I. SO good to see mum so happy!
Tina and Lucy. Snow makes everyone a little kid!
Soba lunch!
Met this amazing 81 yr old Indonesian man on the way to Mt. Fuji today. He was smoking gudang garams like a chimney and had piercing blue eyes! When I asked him about his eyes (in the best Indo I could manage) he said they were brown, and over the years they’ve turned blue!!! Had to ask him for a shot! So glad I did.
Mt. Fuji! *sigh
My room overlooking the lake at Kawaguchiko is SO wow!
We were given Kimono’s to wear to dinner, got mine on so wrong!
Group shot!
Dinner ended too early so a few of us headed back into the lobby to buy more beers from the vending machine and play some pong and Mum played some piano.
We’ve been a little bit unlucky with the Sakura opening in time, and today we had a little more bad luck with not being able to see Mt. Fuji. Ah well! What can you do?! Still one of the most enjoyable days so far on tour. The older ladies love me, and I love them! It’s been great vibes, great laughs, lots of banter and jokes.
We are spending the night in a traditional Japanese hotel tonight, sleeping on the floor on tatami matts. My room is absolutely amazing! I can’t help but want to shoot someone in this room! It’s just SO beautiful and will be even more beautiful in the morning light.