How to use a public bath, a sento, an onsen. Simples First take off your shoes and put them in a locker. Then you need to pay. When you go inside and realise your in the right one, proceed to the next stage. I think the only times you may want a swimming costume is …
The first time I was in Japan I had to get my head around this idea.
I live in an area of Osaka called Midoribashi... and I want to tell you why you should visit (or live here too!) Ok from the subway station, it looks like nothing is here, just a big flyover road and not a lot else. Well you're part right but there's some local places which should …
Continue reading What’s in Midoribashi? #osaka #placestovisit #midoribashi
First blog post in a long time but never mind. So this silver week we went to Naoshima for 1 night. So to get there we caught the rainbow bus!!! Which came with these awesome notebooks! So cute... Anyway the novelty of the bus wore off and soon we were faced with an hour long …
Continue reading Naoshima!! #island #art and the many #hills and #dragonflies
I was silly I got a reserved seat so I don't get to choose who to sit next to. How my seat is next to someone for the last 3 hours of my 4 hour journey hasn't turned up yet you may think lucky but I'm on an aisle seat next to the window seat …
On new years day I went to the Gokoku shrine based by Hiroshima castle. As people were tired and hangover I decided to adventure over there by myself. When I got there I saw a queue, as I love queues so much I decided to join it. I hoped that it wasn't for one of the …
Merry Christmas everyone!!!! The tree was up the lights were on and El was singing, that's right it's CHRISTMAS! To start off our day we made pancakes for breakfast, they were tasty 🙂 Then despite my last cooking disaster we had managed to cook a good Christmas diner. OK the chicken was pre-cooked and had …
Continue reading Merry Christmas!!! the #dinner, the #poor, the #lonely and the #downtoearth….ish
So from what I've learnt about the Japanese household is that it's all very much like the 1950's. So typically as a female I would be able to cook... so I'm going to go through my list of appliances... obviously not going to delve to deeply into my utensils or my fridge, but basically there's a ladle, …
Continue reading How to cook in Japan… (Rachel’s style) #cancook really
On Saturday we visited the wonderful Miyajima Island, with it's wonderful deers, oysters marvellous shines and temples. How sweet, innocent and small they are and they've had their antlers taken off. Looks can be deceiving, they will steal food and bite. I lie most of them really are friendly. Best souvenir ever!!! They have loads of spoons everywhere …
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Rachel Wanders 