Days in the life of Snowy (aka Snowy World Tour)
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This thread is my new addiction. We might be doing a similar trip in 2018, so until then we continue to live vicariously.
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Yup, was up to Otaru today. Tomorrow off to Farm Tomita to see all the pretty flowers and eat some lavender ice cream. I've never been somewhere so patriotic about their cows and potatoes. Every 3rd/4th place it seems is doing soft serve ice cream, some advertising the farm it was sourced, from, all saying it was local. Potatoes are also called out as local, and quite a few other things, but those 2 are really unexpected. Local pride!
Side note, do let me know if the photos are any better/worse quality/loading time. I've changed from Flickr to Google Photos today. The work flow is much nicer for me, but want to make sure it really does work…
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Thanks for the fast feedback @sabergirl I'll stick with Google then. Flickr's UI was always a bit of a hassle.
2018 will be here before you know it @Anesthetist :). I'd suggest @ least 3 weeks to get good coverage of some areas, 4 if you can spare it. Clothing shopping alone takes 2-3 days, a trip down to The Works is a 1/2 day by itself (but totally worth doing at least once. To see everything 'there' and meet the Tom's/Sudo is just awesome).
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@Snowy I have thoroughly enjoyed catching up with this thread, been looking through the amazing images with a big grin on my face - thanks so much.
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Great stuff as always Snow!
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Beautiful @Snowy Love the shots of street life, the manhole cover is great, you have eyes!
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Thanks MMB, Twin, steelworker, appreciate it :). Today's Farm trip ~2 hours drive from Sapporo was totally worth it. If we'd gone a month later it'd of been outright amazing with the amount of flowers, but was still really special with what we saw/what was in bloom. Lavender all the things (cream puff, soda, pudding, and soft serve) was afternoon tea. All pretty good too!
Tomorrow's our last full day here, no plans for it, might end up doing a smaller trip in the area. We're both enjoying. Monday we head to Hiroshima…
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Absolutely stunning Snow… The dried flower heads in the second pic are one of my favs subtle colours and great arrangement. Beautiful
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Popped out to a chocolate factory this morning, was interesting. Also at least a few million dollars worth of old toys and grammaphones!!! Did about 30 minutes of street shooting in failing light, and finished off in Ramen Alley (thanks @louisbosco). Off to Hiroshima tomorrow!
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@Snowy no worries mate. hope you enjoyed it. i don't suppose you have pics of the ramen you guys bad? just to satisfy my ramen cravings. they've so many choices there, that it's even a problem deciding which store to try!
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@Snowy no worries mate. hope you enjoyed it. i don't suppose you have pics of the ramen you guys bad? just to satisfy my ramen cravings. they've so many choices there, that it's even a problem deciding which store to try!
@louisbosco here you go
The ramen was the best I've ever had, it was good
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We made it to Hiroshima today. Long transit day with lots of nervousness that either connections would be missed or The Luggage not arriving, however, we had time to spare at Tokyo and stopped of for lunch in the airport before the flight (it was rushed, we had about 15 minutes, but that's the point; what was expected to be a missed plane turned out otherwise).
The afternoon was spent in the A-Bomb / Peace Park area. Very solemn place. It's one of those sites I've known would really impact me due to the scale of the destruction. I don't read a lot of death/destruction, knowing how badly it impacts me. It was said that the bomb took out around 2km's (1 mile) of life, builds, you name it. 140,000 lives within a year of the bomb. We walked 2km's 1-way after wards keeping in mind just how far that was to have all signs of life eradicated. So shocking and sad. War sucks. I'll leave it at that.
Tomorrow off to the Gate, and potentially Rabbit Island depending on the day/weather. It's expecting to rain on Wednesday so trying to work out plans for that day…
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cheers snowy. thanks for that!
