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September 2024 - July 2025
  • Findlay Russell
  • Kate Bougoure
  • Fern Russell
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  • Findlay Russell
  • Kate Bougoure
  • Fern Russell
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    Snowboarding fun 🏂

    Jan 1–2 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ -4 °C

    Posts for January 1st and January 2nd:
    All we do is snowboard every day, all day! It was great to have one really sunny day, I actually felt a bit hot! Dad and I have passes now for the ski lift and we went up straight away. You have to click the board on to one foot when you sit on the chairlift to go up. We spent the first day just practising heaps and going up the chairlift. I am definitely getting heaps better.
    The next day wasn't as good weather- light snow. It wasn't as good snow to snowboard on the second day either. I hung out with my mate Ronny, who is also staying at the hotel. We are about the same level so we can hang together. He is also 12.
    We just spent the day snowboarding down the slopes together. It's so good having a mate to hang out with. In the afternoon we went to a few different runs that I may have had to sneak into, Haha!
    I really love snowboarding- it's the best. Nearly as good as surfing. I have improved a lot and it want to keep going all week and just get better and better.    Read more

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    Last day of the year

    December 31, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ❄️ 1 °C

    Our first day snowboarding was eventful. The weather was bad, but plenty of snow. It was like a blizzard as we walked up the hill, but that wasn't going to stop me. We went to the snow gear place to get everything- board, boots, goggles and helmet. It was about $250 for all of this for a week.
    We then went to the skifield and I was so excited. We all started together at the bottom of the mountain for a couple of practices. Dad was good, Fern was good, mum was good, and I was good aswell.
    I think we lasted until about lunch time and then the blizzard really hit. It was more snow than we had ever seen. We decided to head home and I had an onsen. It's a big hot bath bath that you share with other people (but I was lucky to have it to myself).
    I made some mates called Jordy and Ronny and we hung out all afternoon. Spent the afternoon making sled jumps, throwing snowballs at the window and causing a bit of chaos!
    It was New Years Eve tonight and at midnight we walked up to watch some fireworks. It was a great way to finish the year. I am really looking forward to the next few days of snowboarding.    Read more

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    Trains and buses to get to the snow

    Dec 29–30, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ❄️ -1 °C

    Lots of travel days when you go to different places. I don't like much about these days ,except we might be able to go on a bullet train!
    And today we did- Kyoto to Nagoya which was so fast. Then another trip for a few hours to Nagano. This is where they had the Winter Olympics.
    We arrived pretty late so didn't really do much- just a bit of dinner.
    One really cool thing we saw was a Japanese man making soba noodles. He was so precise, measuring the thickness of the soba dough and then his big cleaver to cut them perfectly. Makes you appreciate them a bit more when we eat them!
    Our next travel day was to Hakuba for some ski adventure. Not too far from Nagano but the days seem to go forever when there are buses and trains involved. We arrived in the afternoon to Hakuba, checked in and I couldn't wait to get out into the snow . So much snow everywhere! It is just walls and walls of it all around us. I wanted to run and jump into it straight away.
    When I saw the skifield, I just wanted to get out there immediately. It was really clear and although it was cold, the sun felt nice and I reckon it would be perfect for snowboarding. But because it was late in the afternoon we didn't get our rental gear- we will get that tomorrow.
    Our first night in Hakuba was awesome because we made some friends from the hotel. We played til nearly midnight and had an epic snowball fight outside.    Read more

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    Our first sight of snow

    December 28, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ❄️ -1 °C

    Today was our last full day in Kyoto. We went back to our favourite sushi train and ate heaps- it's a great place and I wouldn't mind a sushi train like this in Darwin! I thought it would be a great idea to find a playground for the afternoon- but easier said than done! We found a good one but it was a bit of a hike so we caught the bus there.
    When we stepped into the playground it looked awesome. I really enjoyed the maze and the steep slides. We played for ages- and I couldn't believe it when it started to actually snow. We tried to catch some on our tongues, but it was actually only a couple of flakes. But still exciting for me.
    My favourite food in Japan is definitely gyoza. I try and have some everyday if I can! Kyoto had some good ones for sure and if course had some on my last night here.    Read more

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    A shopping spree kind of day

    December 27, 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌙 4 °C

    We started our day off with a quick mango smoothie from 7-11 and then headed across the river to the ahopping area. First stop was a poodle cafe for half an hour. It was really fun going there and the dogs were pretty cute. We ended up as soon as it opened and that was very lucky because we had the whole place to ourselves. My favourite dogs were the poodles. They played with me and jumped on my lap.
    The first shop I went to was a chain shop. I have been wanting a silver chain for a while and got a good one here.
    I also got a pair of Jordan's that I really like. I have already worn them for a trip to 7-11.
    I also got a cool slug lamp that you turn on and off by speed,ing its eyes.
    We chilled at ho.e for the rest of the afternoon and a tonkatsu curry for dinner.    Read more

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    The gloomy bamboo forest

    December 26, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C

    We took 2 train rides to get to a train station, to get on another train... but what was special about this train was that it had no windows, a plastic see through roof and it was a scenic train through the mountain,along the river. It was a ride for us to then get on a boat back down the Hozu-gawa river.
    The boat ride was pretty cold and at the end I got to have a turn at paddling. We went down some rapids which got us going a bit faster. We sat at the front but had to cover our legs with a plastic sheet so we didn't get wet.
    We had a fantastic Japanese curry called tonkatsu. It warmed us up.
    We walked through the Bamboo Forest and it felt mysterious because it was gloomy.
    For dinner we went to a sushi train place with a big TV touch screen. You order what you want off the big screen and it is delivered via a conveyor belt. Probably the coolest sushi train I have ever been to.    Read more

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    Christmas day

    December 25, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    Christmas in Japan was a little bit different to what we are used to. We opened some little presents and I got a Bento box and some chopsticks with my name engraved on them. I had been looking at chopsticks for a few days and I really like these ones.
    We sent mum and dad on a scavenger hunt around the house hiding little presents with riddles.
    We went to Fushimi Inari which has about 10 000 Torii, which are the orange posts. We went last time, I remember the torii.
    Christmas dinner was a special buffet at a fancy hotel. The food was very good. I liked their pasta.
    I really liked Christmas day here in Japan- I missed a few things like having a Christmas tree 🎄, but having Christmas here was pretty special.    Read more

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    From bacon to Wagyu-which one did I eat?

    Dec 23–24, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

    23rd: The highlight of today was getting a Japanese haircut. I went to a pretty cool barber shop and got a skin fade. We also hung out at the Nishiki Food Market.
    24th: Oink oink.. we started our day off with a quick trip to the micro pig Cafe. There were about 20 little piggies and while we were there we played with a bigger one that kept sitting in my lap! He was a big boy- a lot of bacon.
    At the cafe we sat and at first none of the pigs came over to us but it didn't take long for them to trot over to us. When people get up to leave they jump around and are all excited. It was heaps of fun and we all loved it, especially Ferny.
    We then visited another temple called Kinkaku-ju. Did you know most of the Temples in Japan are built without nails. Japanese carpentry is amazing.
    A fact about this place is that when it was first built a monk burnt it down and then when it was rebuilt, they used 5 times as much gold.
    We had a special dinner at the markets and I was super excited for it. I bet you can guess what it was.... delicious WAGYU! Best I have had in my life. $40 each piece so relatively cheap, but still delicious .
    Walking home we saw a truck that was totally decked out. It was so cool to see and I didn't think we would get to see one.    Read more

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    The old and the new Kyoto

    December 22, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C

    Arriving in Kyoto brang back lots of memories. We are staying in a tiny Japanese town house with a cool little room upstairs and the first thing Fern and I said was 'dibs sleeping upstairs!'
    We walked to the Yasaka Pagoda and it is the coldest weather we have been in so far. We found a cool lolly shop in the old cobblestone streets that we stopped at. Fern got a bag of tiny chocolate cats and I got an awesome sushi set! Maybe too cool to actually eat them though!
    Our plan was to walk to Kiyomizu-dera Temple. It was a temple on top of a big hill, but far too many people at the top. I don't like the big crowds- I feel a bit anxious.
    The views at this temple was looking over the whole of the city. It is weird looking at the new part of the city from such an old temple.
    There were some great maple trees at the temple, I really like the dark red leaves. It is surprising how many still have leaves on them.    Read more

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    A deer town

    December 21, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

    We went to Nara today and when we arrived we hopped on a bus and went to the Nara Deer Park. There were lots of deers- I reckon there were 1000-1500 of them. When you are at the park you are allowed to go up and pat them. One funny thing that they do is bow at you because they think if they are nice to you they might get a biscuit. There was also a huge temple with a very big Buddha- I think the 2nd biggest one of the holiday.
    The deer's were both big and small- the big ones looked a bit dodgy so I tried to keep my distance. They have had their antlers cut off but we did see a few people getting chased!
    In the evening when we were walking home it started to rain! We were not expecting it and luckily we were standing out the front of a little bar. The owner let us come in and we sat there for a drink. The japanese are very kind people.
    Nara was a really great and a fun place with all the deer and I really liked it.    Read more

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