Due north
Last Wednesday when I got back from my first Japanese class with my new sensei, Yoshi, Laurie and John asked me if I wouldn’t mind taking a trip to Hakodate to clear snow from their daughter Mary’s roof. The fact that they had been on the phone already and told their in-laws the Watanabe’s I was coming to stay was beside the point, I was more than happy to take a trip to Hakodate. I quite like going to see new places and experience new areas and I got to go under the longest undersea railway tunnel in the world, (so take that Anglo-Francophiles… :huh_tb:) the Seikan Tunnel
Anyways, the trip was good, I got to meet a Korean Short term team at Nanae Church and a bunch of other nice people including the Elliots in-laws (via their daughter Anna) the Watanabes, and I got to walk on water! Ok so it was frozen, but still, pretty cool. I was also shocked to learn that 3cm thick ice is enough for a person to walk on it, well though that may be the case, you won’t find me walking on 3cm thick ice. Not unless a sumo wrestler in high heels is jumping up and down on it and still not swimming…
And you can see photos of this and other stuff in the photo gallery which I finally fixed (but may break again if I attempt an upgrade to wordpress2, Marky, did you try it yet?)
January 18th, 2006 at 3:59 am
Hey man. Yeah, I went through the upgrade and it was fairly uneventful… although I don’t have a photogallery at my blog.
14 miles underground in the Seikan Tunnel must be maddening. I remember long tunnels when I was in France and Italy around the Alps, but they were nowhere close to that long! What speed did the train do through it? Faster than Translink?! Surely not!!! hehe…
You got much work on at the moment?
January 18th, 2006 at 10:55 am
A little faster than translink… The entire distance on the trip home was 199km (although that was to Itayanagi, not Ajigasawa but I’m sure that makes all the difference to you… maybe it’s comparable to the camp drive to Kinsale?) and I left at 13:39 from Hakodate and arrived in Itayanagi at 17:20. 4 hours 40 minutes, not too bad considering I had 2 train changes and only one of the 3 trains was an express (which they call Hakuchou, meaning swan, which is a bit weird…)
anyways I am not sure if I will attempt the upgrade or not, I modified some of the wordpress files to make the gallery more integrated and i would need to do backup and see if the files are similar and modify etc… maybe I will next week though…
January 18th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
well.. i wouldnt be walking on 3cm thick ice either
that tunnel sounds like it would b really awesome to see tho!!