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• View from our new apartment

  29Apr
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• All moved out

  27Apr
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  Careful protection of walls and ground as always…

  

  200 boxes packed for Sweden and 40 to China.

  

  Empty and soon cleaned and ready for a new family.

• Coffee tasting and more flowers

  27Apr
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  Free tasting, and it was difficult to choose…

  

  

  Past this lovely specimen on my walk today…

• Some photos from the last days

  26Apr
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  Hanging in the park or in the reception area after school

  

  Today’s lunch: hamburger with asparagus and camembert cheese..

  

  

  

  

  Tokyo is overflowing with beautiful flowers…

  

  ..and scents..

• 10 years in Asia today!

  24Apr
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  Max and I landed in Beijing…

  

  Today in Tokyo, packing up our apartment and getting ready for Sweden…well, this summer…

• TIS Cherry Blossom Festival

  23Apr
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  The Swedish table sold pancakes and salmon wraps. Busy preparing and very busy selling later on…

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  There were food from many different countries and lots of games and fun. Max volunteered to get splashed with wet sponges….

• After school..

  21Apr
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  A stop in a park after school… and some of the last beautiful cherry blossoms… pink heavenly blossoms…

• Nezu shrine & azaleas

  19Apr
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  Took a walk to admire the 3000 azaleas planted around Nezu shrine.

• Home on the monorail

  16Apr
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  We took the monorail back towards Tokyo.

• More from Kamakura

  16Apr
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  Speciality from Kamakura,  soft ice-cream with purple sweet potato flavour.  Quite yummy!

  

  

  

  Lots to see and do…

  

  Sam finished his soft ice-cream!

• Enoshima

  16Apr
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  Lunch and coffee and then a walk up to the shrine.

  

  

  

  

  Up to the shrine and down again…

  

  

  

  

  Squid and cucumbers.. On a stick?

  

  

• Enoshima electric railway

  16Apr
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  We took the Enoshima electric train to Enoshima and walked out to the island for lunch.

  

  

  

• Hase-dera

  16Apr
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  The small Jizo statues are placed by parents mourning their children,  lost by miscarriage,  stillbirth or abortion.  The statues remain for about a year.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Hase -dera, a Buddhist temple in Kamakura. Beautiful gardens and buildings and a lovely view of the bay.

• Great Buddha Kamakura

  16Apr
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  We started our trip in Kamakura to go and admire the great Buddha, that was built around 1250s. It is 13 m high and the principle diety of the temple.

• Papers and more papers…

  15Apr
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  Lena took me to a store full of washi papers and boxes of all kinds.  Here you can buy papers to glue on any kind of box….tissue boxes, tea boxes or any kind of box to keep things in…need I say it was impossible to choose…

• Chabako

  12Apr
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  We had a Chabako workshop today.
  Cha=tea bako =box. The box is made of cedar and it is lined with tin. Perfect for keeping things (like tea) dry. We covered the boxes with washi paper and they turned out beautiful!

  

  My box at home!

• Weekend walk

  10Apr
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• A day to remember

  08Apr
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• Park visit..

  03Apr
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  This was the entrance to Shinjuku park…so we decided not to get in line…

  

  So we went to Yoyogi Park instead…

  

  

  

  

  

  This is what it looked like…everywhere..

  

  

  

  We did manage to find a spot further into the park where it was a little bit less crowded…

  

  It was crowded beyond belief, but still a lot of fun, people watching as much as enjoying the cherry blossoms and taking part of this massive celebration!

• Cloudy day out

  02Apr
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  We took a day off from the cherry blossoms…and walked to a favourite park…but it’s not easy to have a day off…the city is full of blossoms..