With Kaori we prepared some bento ( picnic ), wrapped in traditional way using a leaf from Getto. Then went for a walk in the mountain behind Oohama’s rice fields. An abandoned road goes a long way up, we even get a nice view back on the rice fields and Kazushige still clearing the evacuation …
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3.f 21 to 25 Jan – … so just work and food?
Nah… we also had entertainment and discoveries of all sorts. How to lace lemon grass… And more ….
3.e 21 to 25 Jan – And more …
Nozomi found a big shell from the sea, we had to struggle a bit to get it open and extract the body. But we had the right team for that and so … … it was added to the evening meal Some daily scenery… Bikes landed by the farm to come and go… Mess behind …
3.d 21 to 25 Jan – What? No pictures of food!
Last post on our first week may give the wrong impression… we did not just work! We once more had amazing meals… Although our host likes fishing and although it is around 23°C, he finds it too cold to go out fishing… instead we caught our own sea food with a trap and bate. And …
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3.c 21 to 25 Jan – Iriomote, First WWOOF week
First week of work at the farm, some days are quite heavy on the back … we are more used to office work, but we got to do a lot of different task. Sorting and packing rice for sale Mending the warehouse Trimming the mango trees Moving plants to another location – transplanting Trimming the …
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3.b Weekend, 19 & 20 Jan – Iriomote
First weekend on island, sunny Saturday, rainy Sunday. Rain is to be expected in this season. Saturday morning, we went to the next village for the primary school festivities, Shirahama. The village has likely not much more than 200 inhabitants, we counted 16 students, but 8 teachers. The performances by these young kids was just …
3.a 16, 17 & 18 Jan – Ishigaki & Iriomote
At the South Island One quick halt at Ishigaki, 3h flight south of Odawara … overnight and attempted to collect information about the two islands. Not really lucky with that, the best we found was at local library, copying pages of a book that described a few walks on each islands part of Okinawa archipelago. …
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2. 14 & 15 Jan – Odawara
About 70km south-west from Tomi’s place lives another friend, Mimiko. We went there for two days. As Tomi’s favourite football club had won at the Asian tournament, he took the train with us up to Odawara and spent the afternoon with Mimiko and us. This is a region for kaki and plums /prunes from which …
1.c 13 Jan – Tokyo
As Go and Megumi have a day off, exceptionally! … we went to the local swimming pool with Go in the morning, a great 50m pool with lanes to swim , water at 28 and surprisingly not crowded! As they have a Yuzu tree in their garden and nothing had been made with the fruits, …
1.b 12 Jan – Tokyo
Traditional breakfast has rice and fish, but Tomi also made his special receipt of nato! Not such a sunny day, so we decided to go for the crowded city! Shinjuku! Shinjuku desu!!