On the platform at Fujigawa station – look, look at Mount Fuji in the background! (below) | With furry purry feline company, in my room at my WWOOF placement in Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture (below) |
Travel essentials: one’s Ecoffee cup and one’s super-concentrated cordial, for moments when sugar is called for! Just half a teaspoon of this Oasis makes a good beakerful of cordial to provide hydration before my hilly run :) (below) On the roof (with Wi-Fi, sunshine and water to drink) at the Saika Guest House (= hostel) in Wakayama city, as I waited for someone, anyone, to arrive and get me checked in. Four hours later, someone did! (below) | After refusing one of their cardboard, disposable cups I sit down at a table at Starbucks, Kyoto (you’ll just have to trust me on the Kyoto bit...): (below) In front of Wakayama Castle: (below) |
Some fans in the lobby of the hotel: (below) | And here are a couple of snaps of my Ecoffee cup fitting right into the decor of my temporary home at Kirinosato Takahara: the earthbag house! I’ve written a longer entry on the whys and wherefores of this construction elsewhere in the blog, so do feel free to read it if you’d like to know more :) |