Here we go… Weather is getting cool enough to hit the road. First bike touring this year, we decided (with Pierre and Sylvain) to spend the week end in Gifu Ken around Takayama and Shirakawa-go. We will most probably spend the night in Shirakawa-go in one of the typical ryokan. Actually we already reserved the one named Kanja (cf picture). Hope everything will be fine with the bikes….
Links:
Search for Japanese Inns (in English)
Info on Shirakawa-Go and list of ryokan
Week end with Santa Belgica, in Gunma Ken, around Minakami… As usual, week end was perfectly organized by Bernard and Jan. The Montain Bike and Rafting week end is one of the activity I enjoyed the most 2 years ago, and I was quite excited to experience it once more. First day was the Montain Bike trip, unfortunatly too much japanized. The trip was a bit too short, and the instructor was spending his time showing how to turn right and left and so on … We enjoyed the short moments anyway. The next day, Rafting was just great, much better than 2 years ago. The trip was long and a bit risky ( remenber we almost die, falling in the 6degrees water, when we flipped the raft.;-)).
If you happen to go there, don’t miss the rafting of course, but also a really nice (probably the best I went to) onsen: Takaragawa Onsen. It’s a mixte one, composed of 2 parts splited by the river. Like other people here, I am sure I could spend the whole day there, admiring the flow of the river and the surronding montains. Also, It’s the first time I could touch and play with baby bears.
Hello World, this is the first message on my Weblog… Browsing the web for Japan related websites, I discovered the webloggers community (http://www.domodomo.com, http://www.wirefarm.com, …), exchanging ideas about their life in Japan, things they discover on the Net, and so on and so on… So here I am as well, I am starting my weblog… Don’t know yet if I will find interesting things to say, or if I will have enough time to make regular updates, but let’s see…
I have mainly been concentrating on the updates of my Links page lately. You will find new interesting links in all sections. Please have a look and don’t hesitate to send me interesting ones of the same topics. I have also added a new page in the Music part, a playlist of the music I like the most. This is my best selection. I’ve been listening a lot of good things lately, I’m in discovering new things as some time before when I was younger. Coming back to the links, don’t miss the Quirky Japan Homepage, I’ve learned a lot of interesting things. It’s funny to find answers to things I’ve always been wondering without finding an answers (like why japanese see the green Traffic light as a blue light). Mostly for people living in Japan though. I really wish to add a lot more links to the culture and Japan parts in the future, maybe thinking to write a little more on this website about living here and stuff… when I can get some time for it. Anyway, just thinking how this website would evolve.
It has been some time already without any updates. Well, I moved to a new server, as my previous host is stopping his service. I moved to www.rcthost.com, following Eddie’s recommendation. It’s fast, it offers some useful functionalities such as the guestbook I am now using. I took the oportunity to work on some of my pages, especially the links ones which were not Mozilla compatible (they are now). I updated the party2002 page as well with some comments.