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Cover Story – Yokohama

and random stuff found under our feet walking in Yokohama The real Nippon Maru is located a few hundred metres away from where I found this manhole cover.

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Cover Story – Yokohama

On The Run – Yufuin

Read my first post of this “On The Run” series at: On The Run – Yokohama to know why I’m all excited about doing morning runs in Japan. ^^ I didn’t really have running gear suitable for the colder season and buying new ones would be such a waste since I’m only using it a few times so to keep me warm, I just put on my Uniqlo heatech shirt and another shirt on top it and my usual capri pants

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On The Run – Yufuin

On The Run – Yokohama

After my Autumn Reminiscence series, I thought I’d start on another. And it’s something that I love doing and that’s running, folks. Combine running and venturing out in a strange city = seeing things I probably won’t be seeing otherwise.

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On The Run – Yokohama

A Perfect Arch

On a train ride one wet morning in Japan, I saw a perfectly arched rainbow through the window of my train.

Winter Bites

and we saw snow fall in Hakodate. Such a novelty for us and despite getting our frozen ears to feel like they can fall off, it was a blast being on the south tip of Hokkaido in December 2011.

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Winter Bites

Autumn Reminiscence – A Place That Feels Like Home

OK, so I lied. Again.

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Autumn Reminiscence – A Place That Feels Like Home

Autumn Reminiscence – In A Foreign Country?

No Spring nor Summer hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face

Autumn Reminiscence – Yokohama

“Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower”

Autumn Reminiscence – Yanaka Cemetery

Departing autumn with hands spread open chestnut burs

Autumn Reminiscence – Ueno Park

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree”