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Train Station Sushi
We are taking the high speed train to Kyoto and we needed to get some food, so we stopped at a restaurant in the train station for sushi. Terrifying, I know. I can’t even imagine trusting sushi at a train station or airport or 7-11, but it’s everyday here. close up on the ones that…
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Dinner in Kawaguchiko
Aris found us the best reviewed restaurant in the area and we walked through back alleys and past immaculate vegetable gardens full of perfect corn to get to this restaurant. We were concerned that the reviews were all bots or something because there so glowing. The place was quite trendy looking. Bar seating and 2…
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Tenoshima
Our experience at a 3 Michelin star restaurant. There was seating for a maximum 16 people here. There was one other family next to us with 2 kids, vastly younger than our 2 kids, and a couple seated at the bar behind David and Daya. by the end of the night the two kids at…
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Linderhof and Oberammergau
Today we booked an all-day tour. The morning was Linderhof Castle. I was not allowed to take photos inside, which is a bit of a shame because it was so over the top. Gold covered carvings, porcelain vases, paintings, tapestries, ivory, and glass. Dude needed to learn to edit! It’s a tiny castle, like Mc…
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Salzburg Gardens
We found a dwarf garden! This was a big beautiful garden. Several Sound of Music scenes were filmed here. Including the do re mi song.
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The Sound of Music
In Salzburg we embarked on a 10 mile bike ride to all the sound of music sites. Let’s start at the very beginning. Photos from the abbey where Maria grew up. I went inside to snap a photo and captured a brief video. This is the original version of How do you solve a problem…
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Dachau
Many of the words I used here came from the information at the site, but feel so wrong. Prisoners implies something that doesn’t properly encompass the crimes inflicted on the innocent people tormented here. Work house was used as part of the nazi propaganda that this was a work camp, not a torture and death…
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It’s all about the cheese
Today we went on a 6 stop food tour through Amsterdam. Including beverages. First stop was dutch apple pie, which I have certainly had a time or two in the US. And each time I had it I asked myself, “How is this different than regular apple pie?” The answer, to myself, was always “I…
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Van Gogh Museum
We saw Stary Night in New York and I was so impressed with the impact of that painting in real life. It is so good. So we had to go to the Van Gogh museum while we were in Amsterdam. They had a special exhibit that was focused around his final works before he took…
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