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I have this awesome, but old, Japanese guide book about living Japanese style and I so want to go, not a package tour, a real poke-around. Who wants to come along, even for just a few minutes, in imagination?

It all sounds so incredibly exotic. Chapter headings include

*exchanging greetings
*using the bath and toilet (Japanese ones ARE different!)
*using the public bath
*typhoons and earthquakes
*travelling on the cheap (I'll quote from that one in comments)

*visiting a hot spring

I posted a video, then deleted it, it was all street markets and Western-style entertainment, thanks but no thanks, got that here.

Anyone been? Even better, lived there?

But will she sail? When a ship is ready to sail, the ship’s master will hoist the Blue Peter. This is to indicate that the crew must hurry on board otherwise they will be left behind.

Sometimes it is such a jolly port, that enough crew may decide to stay behind and then the ship cannot sail. The ship must linger so a new crew can be assembled. However, if enough crew returned to sail, there may still be a mutiny as soon as they are at sea, forcing the ship back to port?

Will she complete the journey or turn around? This is a jolly port and few ships have sailed never to return. Sometimes the ship is renamed and repainted for a sneaky return and a surprise attack. What will it be? Will the ship sail?

The Blue Peter

So am travelling to Holland and i welcome suggestions on the best places to go and visit!
I am soooooo very excited so any good ideas will be appreciated and may be i can bump into 'Mr Right' on my trip lol!

and that's me away to Alicante, Spain, at the end of September.

Sun, sea, sand, well actually none of that, my sister lives inland. But if there is anyone on CS not a gazillion miles from Bedar, Almeria, gies a shout, would love to meet up for a lunch and my sister is much nicer than I am.

Now to earn the money to pay for it all: leaving the car in airport parking, organizing a house-sitter for the animals, all the other costs that bounce up beaming just when you think you've paid for it all. Yikes.

...but I had to write it...true ?

The joys of traveling alone...u can do what you want when you want .

Eg.

Man: what would you like to do today
Woman: I dont know, what do you want to do.
Man: i'm asking you
Woman: I'm happy to do what you wanna do
Man: ok don't moan if you don't like it
Off they go.

Next day:-
Man: come on
Woman: why what we doing.
Man: hiring a moped , check the sites and get a quad and go off road
Woman: well did you think to ask me?
Man: well when I do, you answer a question with a question, and you says you're happy to do what I wanna do
Woman: yes but there are two of us on holiday you know.
Man: yea and I'm making all the decisions

Suffice to say she makes your life hell all day...??

Alps is amazing....The villages in Alps are more Austria's style, though it is in Fliuli, Italy. I love Alps!

I love mountains. Last year when I was in South Africa, I have seen Table Mountain for many times, however, I had no chance to climb it. This year, surprised, I was sent to Alps. Amazing Alps~~~~~I love you!

Hi again...im Candy again i will write my opinion about "Travel" who peoples dont like Traveling?explore around meet local peoples...but few peoples i think dont like travel with many reason like scary with flight,prefer stay at home and etc okay im respect your reason...

I like traveling and adventure...hiking and nature always be my passion..but im travel just in my place (but i love it if have travel company) 1 weeks ago im with friends explore place in my area,we have idea for visited shelter new friends with mental problems (sound scary and fun because they not normal condition mental).On the way that shelter i was thinking what we wanna doing for them? What will happen? How them? Yeah im never visited peoples with mental problem but will be good experience for me.

Just need 1,5 hours for get that shelter from my home...and staff with smile so welcome our visited..we shake hands with them and try interaction..we singing and pray for them. Be fun they singing and dance for me and friends too..wow that pretty cool.Im so happy...someone told me "happy is so simple...make happines peoples around you" that true i fell more so grateful and blessing after my visited. If before im too many complaint about this life well i have more lucky than friend in shelter...share little what we have for them,share happines and more joy i have feeling now.

Well this life not about me,my story and my life in there still many world,peoples and culture different...i hope someday i have long step for travel (wish my partner love yeah...! Lol)

okay always going cool and be care for peoples around you!

Ever wondered about the aroma you get from the earth after rain falls? Some people I know cant stand it.
But it makes me feel so close to nature and grounded.
I sometimes go outside and just sit there during and after the rain just to take it all in.
I wonder if the scent is the same in different parts of the world.

Ok so enough of my weirdness.

The scent of the rain is actually called Petrichor.

Very Interesting Read:

Some places with the most extreme climate......

collected some places with really extreme climate that you should not miss:

World's Coldest Inhabited Place
Average winter temperature at Oymyakon gets as low as -50 degrees Celsius. It has an extreme subarctic climate which makes the ground permanently frozen. The lowest that has been recorded at this place is -90 degrees.

World's Driest Inhabited Place
Aswan in Egypt the driest inhabited place on Earth. The place records about 1 or 2 milimetres of rain every 5 years. There was a time when Aswan did not see any rain for about seven years.

Farthest Point from Earth's Center
Chimborazo volcano is 3,967 miles from the Earth's center. With a peak elevation of 20,564 feet, Chimborazo is also the highest mountain in Ecuador.

Hottest Inhabited Place
At Dallol, Ethiopia, Africa slopes to a depth of 380 feet below sea level, and thus the temperature soars. Dallol has the highest temperature in the world, recorded at 94 degrees Celsius.

Lowest Point on Earth
Dead Sea in Israel is at 1,391 feet below sea level and hence, is the lowest point on Earth. The deepest lake bottom in a below-sea-level depression also belongs to the Dead Sea at -750 meters.

World's Hottest Place
With a temperature of 159 degrees, that has been recorded by satellites, the Lut Desert in Iran is the hottest place on Earth. The hottest air temperature ever recorded was 136 degrees.

World's Wettest Place
Cherrapunji, in 1861, saw 75 feet of rainfall. The average annual rainfall is about 37 feet. Although nearby Mawsynram currently holds that record. The city's yearly rainfall stands at 463.7 inches.

World's Flattest Place
Salar de Uyuni is 130 kilometres long and 100 kilometres and it is larger than 30 countries. The world's largest salt flat is extremely flat.