New Format

Just noticed that Blogger has a number of new blog designs on offer so I thought a new look would freshen things up a bit. Hope you like. It is now nearly midnight on Sunday and the dread of another week at work is upon me. I am happy that the World Cup has started and am looking forward to Japan v Netherlands on Saturday 19th June.

Not too long until Yuki, Clara and I head off to Hakone for a night away. After that, Clara will go to Scotland for a month, departing from Japan around the middle of July. While she is away, we have another trip planned to Karuizawa, a popular resort in Japan. Another week beckons....lets hope it is a good one.

Lake Kawaguchi Revisited

After a 3 year hiatus, we visited Lake Kawaguchi once again to have a brief change of scene and for some respite from the metropolis. The location of Fit Resort is shown on the poster of Mt Fuji. I won't go into too much detail as my post from our last visit (nearly 3 years ago) would suffice.

One of this years highlights was playing tennis - Clara found great pleasure (and exercise) in being the ball girl and played an important role in keeping the game flowing as the need for players to scramble around for tennis balls was removed. The other highlight was swimming in the lovely pool with Clara. As with the last time, the pool did not have many other swimmers, for most of the time we were the only people there. Clara loved it and gained a lot of confidence - a great chance for both of us to spend some quality time together.

The room itself was slightly disappointing, but that became less of an issue the more beer and wine I drank on Saturday night. A lovely weekend away which was not even spoiled by the 2 hour traffic jam we found ourselves in on the drive home. The only problem is that the weekend is over in a flash and I will be getting up at the crack of dawn tomorrow for the long train journey to Kaihin Makuhari - no rest for the wicked. Perhaps some colleagues and I will climb Mt Fuji this summer if we all gather up the required motivation. As I have been in Japan for some time now, I really need to conquer Mt Fuji to tick off the list of things to do. More on that later, perhaps.......