Month: December 2001

  • Takayama, Gero and Nagoya Atsuda Shrine

    The price of the folk museum was 700 yen – which was too much for me. I took snaps of the local town. The sun only occasionally broke through the clouds. A gentleman chatted at one point, which was a little inconvenient, since the sun was shining. Further down the hill, I was looking at…

  • To Takayama

    I got a lift without too much difficulty in the morning, to Kyoto. However, there I was stuck for quite some time before I got a lift. I think there were a couple of rides up the Tokai-Hokuriku expressway. Suddenly, we hit the snow. My driver was going to Takayama, but I wanted to go…

  • Hashikuiiwa and Kawanoyu hot springs

    I’m not quite sure of the pronunciation of this place – is it Hashikuiiwa or Hashiguiiwa? It doesn’t make any difference to the photos, though. Sunrise was excellent, making it all the more worthwhile to sleep outside, despite the temperatures. I especially like the photo of the cormorant on the top of one of the…

  • Shirahama hot springs and white sands

    It was a beautiful morning, but I didn’t have too long to wait between rides. There were three, to take me to the next services, Gobo and Shirahama. At Gobo, I was dropped at a small car park with a tourist shop at the top of a cliff. I didn’t think many people would stop…

  • Heading for Shirahama – got to Kishiwada!

    There was still more work to do on the computer, but I didn’t wish to overstay my welcome. I could have spent another few days just catching up on the diaries. Instead, I par celled up the Canada CDs to send to the people I stayed with in Canada as a way of saying thank…

  • Computing at Noji’s

    It took most of the day to make the new namecards, with photos of Japan on them. The photography shops can only accept JPEG files, and my programs (PaintShop Pro, and Ulead PhotoImpact) don’t let me write in Japanese, even in Windows 2000. I had to make an image using Word and capturing it from…

  • Christmas Party with Chris and Michael

    Another late morning. Fortunately, I received a second email about the virus. As suspected, it was just a hoax. It had originated in Portuguese several years ago. I wonder why sane, rational people don’t ask questions? Perhaps it is a side-effect of “faith.” Some things just have to be accepted without questioning. It made me…

  • Christmas eve service in Osaka

    It’s harder to remember what I was up to during the day. At Noji’s, I tended to get up late and do some computing before lunch. We skipped breakfast. I made the cover for the CD of Japan in Autumn, and printed it out. I wanted to find out about printing some of my snaps…

  • Terumi’s Party in Tarumi

    I made the special CD for Bill and his wife, and set off by train. The extra luggage makes hitching impossible. I had promised to bring a bottle of wine, but didn’t find a shop near the station. Anyway, I was regretting the additional expense to my limited resources. It was quite a packed party,…

  • Computing at Bill’s in Amagasaki

    Bill has a fast link to the internet via cable. Once I had chosen and labelled all my photographs, I uploaded them to the internet and updated the database. I had to connect with my own modem, though, to get my emails directly into my computer. In the afternoon, I tried without success to plug…