Moving from Tsukuba to Tsuchiura
Quite a year, and it is almost over. This time last year we were in Xinjiang in Western China. The photo to the left was taken almost exactly a year ago as we drove from Korla to Bosten Lake. You can check out some photos from around last Christmas at The Opposite End of China. This Christmas is shaping to be bit more peaceful, and certainly a lot warmer than last year.
I have had a few emails asking where we were, and what is happening. So, just to bring you up to speed - now we are in Ibaraki, a province to the north of Tokyo in Japan.
We have been in Ibaraki for a few months now and things are definitely much quieter. A nice change of pace. We will be moving again though. At present we are living in a tiny little monthly apartment courtesy of leopalace. On Sunday we will go to see our new landlord, sign a lease and pay for our new place. It is a 3 bedroom house in the neighboring town of Tsuchiura.
Tsuchiura will be the sixth place we have lived in in Japan. That is one more than the number of leaders New Zealand’s opposition National party has had in almost the same amount of time. They need to settle on who is in charge, and we too need to settle in a place for a bit. The new house we will be moving to is very nice. I haven’t seen inside, just had a bit of a look at the outside a few nights ago. The place has a decent garden with something approaching a lawn (will need to brush up on my green-keeping skills) which looks pretty good for the odd game of french cricket.
3 Comments, Comment or Ping
michael
Is that bus really around here somewhere? Where? And how the hell did it get here?
Dec 18th, 2006
symeg
i changed the picture:) the photo i put up had an ugly purple frame. it would be kind of cool to have a bus like that near Korla, but i dont think that particular vehicle is going anywhere.
Dec 18th, 2006
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