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This old waterwheel was beautiful

Hiking The Magome-Tsumago Trail in in the rain

The Magome-Tsumago trail in the Kiso Valley is an original postal route in the Nagano Provence, the towns have been maintained in a mostly original state. Walking through the path passes through some beautiful forest, some original cobblestones and a bit of bitumen to remind you of modern times.

The day I walked from Magome to Tsumago was a rainy, cold day – it is easy to imagine what it was like to travel the hundreds of kilometres on foot as people once did.

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Enzansō

A lesson learnt this trip, don’t come to Japan in June, Tokyo is extremely hot and wet but most of the mountains are still covered in snow and not able to be climbed.

I wanted to go back into the Northern Alps but pretty much every route I investigated I eventually reached someone in the area and they told me  that the route is still closed. It was in one of those research sessions that I came across the Otame-Ginza route from Nagano.

Northern Alps from Enzansō

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Diving at Cook Island

I spent yesterday diving at Cook Island off Tweed Heads. It was SO NICE! Even after last week snorkelling at Bundaberg the Tweed had very different things to offer -…

Read more about the article Over The West, Here Come The Alps
Matsumoto Castle is one of the best preserved in Japan.

Over The West, Here Come The Alps

Day 5 - Over The West, Here Come The Alps! Matsumoto, Tokyo Thursday, 7 July 2011 Matsumoto Castle is one of the best preserved in Japan. After a quick look…

Cycling down to Kiama

A few weeks ago I went with Span on a cycling trip from Macquarie to Kiama.

This is a great trip, you catch the train to Macquarie for the start then ride through beautiful rolling hills to the Robertson Hotel for the night. Actually those hills tended to roll far more up than down, but it meant dinner was really appreciated!

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Sydney Half Marathon

Today was the day for the Sydney Half Marathon, even though this was by far my best training I had a lousy race…. 

The weather was absolutely perfect, could not be better, around 16 degrees and clear. The start was more crowded than I remember and I really couldn’t get my rhythm. The same kept happening for most of the next hour, I always have a dead patch between around 55 and 65 minutes, today was no different. I had to have my first gel at only around 40 minutes!

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