Tag: hiking

Okutama – hiking

Okutama – hiking

So a couple of weeks ago I went hiking in Okutama.  About 90 minutes of out Tokyo. I brought along a Japanese guide to read the signs and ensure that I would be fed. This is the feeding before the hike starts.  Now green root. 

Scotland

Scotland

So what to do when you have free time in the uk?  Once you get bored of being a tai tai at least. Go visit the highlands.  So with visions of brave heart in my mind, off I went. This is braveheart territory. Ok, and 

Mt Tokachidake

Mt Tokachidake

Cause all the eating is making me fat, we decided to have an adventure. This picture of a flower belongs here because its lonely and doesn’t fit anywhere else.  Anyway, I digress. We were going up Mount Tokachidake.  This was advertised as an easy hike, 

Iceland – The glacier, puffin and whale

Iceland – The glacier, puffin and whale

So our next trip was to a glacier. A big bad glacier. The ones you see in the movies coming down to destroy humanity.  Except that this one probably moves a couple of meters a year. Off we get Now, what’s so fun about glacier