what do you see?

Hi from Hokkaido! It's our second morning here now, in our small but fairly pleasant weekly apartment. We had a really good time in Nara, which is a lot smaller and less hectic than Kyoto. The deer park was a rare chance to actually sit outside on some nice grass within a Japanese city. Then our 9 hour bus ride overnight back to Tokyo...not so bad. The bus was very comfortable (a far cry from National Express!). We killed a few hours sitting around, getting coffee and stuff and then took the plane up here!


Kitami City is very spread out, and a little bleak. But, you can see mountains all around, there are lots of flowers, more shops and stuff than we expected (even Mister Donuts!) and people are friendly (not too much staring and comments yet...). Our stuff arrived yesterday afternoon, so we've got our place mostly setup now. We can't get too settled in as we're only here for 5 weeks, and then moving twice again!


We're on dialup internet access for a while now, so not so many updates, and we won't be online as much. Plus there are problems with our email access, not at our end, but with the provider! But please email anyway!