I live in Gunma-Prefecture.
I’ve been on a Gunma Holiday for the last 5 days: visiting places in Nagano-Prefecture, Tochigi-Prefecture, and Niigata Prefecture.
A Gunma holiday is more involved than other places … or involves more other places … for some reason.
note: Gunma is pretty big! … you have to drive through it on the way to where you are going quite often from here.
double note:
| “The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.” Don Williams, Jr. |
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| … “Gunma: it’s a journey.” planetross |
triple note: apologies for not responding to comments. It was a split-second decision to actually go somewhere: I thought about it for a second, then I split.
quadruple note: the poster in the picture was created to make Gunma look more cool as a tourist destination. A person doesn’t have to live in Japan for too long before they understand that Audrey Hepburn is/was/will always be the best foreign actress ever … and “Roman Holiday” the best movie.
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Today #185
Today is the last day of holidays before going back to work for a day … then it’s the weekend! woo hoo!
Ahhh… the romance of the skunk cabbage. Hope your Gunma holiday was better than you had imagined in your “second–split” decision. Now that I think about it, my neighborhood is pretty big, too. I always have to drive through it to go anywhere. Hmmm…
The poster makes me wanna come to Gunma. Or is it a poster after all? Could be a close up of a packet of Cabbage Seeds.
Thanks for the comments.
Donald Diddams: it was a good holiday! I still haven’t visited “Oze”, the place in the poster. … but I will this year. It’s only an hour’s drive from here: I must be saving the best for last … or just lazy maybe.
http://www.alternative-tourism.com/Japan/Tourism/Natural_places/Kanto/Oze_top_eng.html
Tony: I think many Japanese have visited places in Gunma: they just forget that they were in Gunma for some reason.
Typical Conversation:
them: “I’ve never been to Gunma.”
me: “Have you visited Oze? Minakami? Shima? Ikaho?”
them: “Oh yes, several times!”
me: “You’ve been to Gunma.”
them: “Are you sure?”
So maybe I have been to Gunma but don’t know it. I don’t think my Mum had a gun. “Hey there’s some trouble makers out in the street, where’s your Gunma???
Tony: that’s what one of my brothers said when I told him where I would be living in Japan. “You’d better grab the gun Ma!“