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Paddling across the Yoshino river

The Yoshino river is the second longest river in Shikoku. It runs right through Tokushima ...
2012-02-07 | emma |  1 comments
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Snow Day

     I don’t have the statistics, but yesterday it snowed fairly heavily. It was ...
2011-02-15 | emma |  4 comments
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Art Setouchi 2010, Shodoshima

For our first taste of the Setouchi Art festival we went to Shodoshima.  Naturally our ...
2010-09-07 | emma |  5 comments
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My friend Sarah will be on Ohayo Tokushima Tuesday 15th June from ...

   Sarah Auffret came to work in Japan in 2007 at the same time ...
2010-06-13 | emma |  1 comments
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Hot cross buns!

On Saturday my parents came from England to visit, you may have already met them.  They ...
2010-04-05 | emma |  3 comments
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Awagami- Winter mitsumata harvesting and paper making ...

Last weekend Mutsumi and I went to the Awagami Factory to participate in the ‘winter mitsumata ...
2010-03-03 | emma |  1 comments
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Really Whale Watching

    Last week we finally managed to go whale watching in Kochi Bay from a place ...
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Urban Whale Watching

I was very disappointed that the boat we had reserved a place on in Silver ...
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"Higanbana"

These lovely vibrant red flowers pop up on long stalks next to the fields of ...
2009-09-19 | emma |  5 comments
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

One night by the light of Emma’s bright electric porch light. A tiny egg lay ...
2009-07-01 | emma |  3 comments
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Valentines day

It has been heard on the streets of Kamiyama’s Jinryo that the lights were on late ...
2009-02-14 | emma |  2 comments
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Yes I Can!!!!

I became really interested in folding origami last summer.  When I had the good fortune of ...
2009-02-10 | emma |  2 comments
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Wild lives...[Joro-gumo], Nephila clavata ...

Kamiyama is a far cry from the hectic life of the big city. At first ...
2008-11-18 | emma |  4 comments
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Home and Away--- Hokkaido

August 23rd-30th 2008  For my week summer holiday I decided to take myself away from the ...
2008-10-01 | emma |  4 comments
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In good company...a Q to the summit

Mt. Fuji 18/19 July 2008  Postcards, museum, highest point.