I had a day off yesterday, i`d done 15 hours of walking on the Geisha hunting day so apart from a visit to the big food market and a visit to the manga museum to find it closed. I sat and read, listened to podcasts and talked to people. It was like a Sunday afternoon back home when you just can`t be arsed to do anything, so i didn`t. Today i`m off to Takayama, hopefully it`s as much fun to visit as it is to say. But it has just started raining so hope that goes away before we arrive.
One hour to go, can`t stop calling the place tappan-yaki instead off Takayama, maybe i`m just hungry. Bad planning by me, i`d read it that the place was 1hr 30 to reach, but in fact there was a transfer followed by another 48 minute train ride. So instead of 3 hours on trains, by the time i get off, it`ll be more like 5! Ignoring that hiccup, the town was really pretty, a little quiet, it felt like a place a place samurai would of retired too. Wooden houses, subtle design, not to loud.. i was going to go to the old farm houses at Hida folk village, to see a more traditional lifestyle than that i`d experienced so far. But apart from the now `time limitations` the weather was starting to turn bad as well. I couldn`t get the best of photos but the sky above us was clear blue, with just a few scattered white clouds, but just a little further away towards the mountains was the weather of the devil. I`d never heard thunder this loud in my life, and the sky looked like that reveal shot of Mt doom in lord of the rings. Then this dark mist started to descend on the town, and everything went pretty dark. I was already shooting on the highest exposure i could, but soon it was too dark to get anything of merit.
I thought the idea to rush around to the old town farms was going to be a journey wasted and on my way back to the station all the rain in the world started falling... so yeah, not the most productive of days, but it did give me chance to listen to the latest adam and joe podcast which amused me greatly. I`ve got to pick up my visa in the morning so that means another trip back to Osaka but i`m going to try and fit in a visit to Hemeji to see the castle providing things go smoothly.
Welcome,
to yet another travel blog!
This is the second time I’ve wrote this intro thing. I wrote one trying way too hard to sound the way I wish I could write. The truth is though, since my GCSE’s I haven’t had to do any proper writing what-so-ever. I did all art A-level as well as an art degree and now work as a graphic designer.
Hopefully it turns out alright, I’m going to try to update as much as possible and if you need to email me privately I’ll be checking my mails every week or so, so just click the mail button above. If the writing becomes too painful then you can go straight to all the photo’s from the "Pictures" link at the top, as will all my videos.
Cheers to anyone who ends up reading this, although I’m sure it’ll become a spam paradise of abuse from friends and work colleagues..cya all in a year or so :D
This is the second time I’ve wrote this intro thing. I wrote one trying way too hard to sound the way I wish I could write. The truth is though, since my GCSE’s I haven’t had to do any proper writing what-so-ever. I did all art A-level as well as an art degree and now work as a graphic designer.
Hopefully it turns out alright, I’m going to try to update as much as possible and if you need to email me privately I’ll be checking my mails every week or so, so just click the mail button above. If the writing becomes too painful then you can go straight to all the photo’s from the "Pictures" link at the top, as will all my videos.
Cheers to anyone who ends up reading this, although I’m sure it’ll become a spam paradise of abuse from friends and work colleagues..cya all in a year or so :D
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