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Chapter Eighteen: Lakes and Mountains

May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 theunfoldingfan

As the car rounded hairpin turns and glided past unguarded drops, we contemplated our mortality and considered the eventuality that the last sound we might hear in our short lives could be the jubilant melody of Germanic Ducktales.

Tagged Aizu, Assistant Language Teaching, cycling, Festival, fireworks, Fukushima, hiking, iimoriyama, Japan, lakes, matsuri, mountains, nature, Travel

Chapter Fourteen: Totoro Woods, Monkeys and Death Roads

October 28, 2018April 11, 2019 theunfoldingfan

On one of these many colourful cartographies I had found something called the ‘Totoro Forest.’

Tagged adventure, death mountain, death road, Fukushima, Japan, macaque, monkeys, mountains, Suspension bridge, Totoro, Totoro forest, Totoro tree, Travel, wildlife, Yamagata, Yonezawa

Chapter Twelve: Time Slip

June 4, 2018April 11, 2019 theunfoldingfan

Received wisdom about bear encounters conflictingly suggests running, standing one’s ground, or playing dead; a selection that seems fatally incompatible.

Tagged ALT, Cultural differences, dam, Education, Festival, Fukushima, Japan, Kitakata, mountains, ramen, Retro, Travel

Chapter Eleven: Kitakata

May 5, 2018April 1, 2019 theunfoldingfan

Mountains are quite often used to connote that which is fixed and enduring, but in reality there are few things more changeable than the mountains.

Tagged ALT, Fukushima, Japan, Kitakata, kura, mountains, ramen, sake, snow, Travel, wildlife

Previous Chapters

  • Chapter Twenty-Two: The Mountain of Disappointment
  • Chapter Twenty-One: The Lakes
  • Chapter Twenty: A Ride with the Kitakata Crew
  • Chapter Nineteen: Ōgawara and Sendai Tanabata Festival
  • Chapter Eighteen: Lakes and Mountains
  • Chapter Seventeen: Highway to Hell
  • Chapter Sixteen: Summer Festival Part Two
  • Chapter Fifteen: Summer Festival Part One
  • Chapter Fourteen: Totoro Woods, Monkeys and Death Roads
  • Chapter Thirteen: Speech Contest
  • Chapter Twelve: Time Slip
  • Chapter Eleven: Kitakata
  • Chapter Ten: Jennie Wren’s Nest  
  • Chapter Nine: Gut Reaction
  • Chapter Eight: Elementary
  • Chapter Seven: Nichuu
  • Chapter Six: An Education
  • Chapter Five: Baptism by Napalm
  • Chapter Four: Boot Camp
  • Chapter Three: Adrift in Cape Cong
  • Chapter Two: Sky Road
  • Chapter One: Sealy-whut?

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Chapter Twenty-Two: The Mountain of Disappointment
Chapter Twenty now available: A Ride with the Kitakata Crew
Chapter Nineteen now available: Ōgawara and Sendai Tanabata Festival
I spoke about my travel experiences at the London Sunday Assembly. Was great fun! I'm 38 mins in, following a couple of other amazing and inspirational speakers.
My sister gave me a kit to make an "origami" bag - I'm very happy with the result!
Chapter Seventeen: Highway to Hell now available.
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