Ehime + Onomichi – Oct 2025_3

Onomichi・尾道

We got a boat to Onomichi and then got another boat to Mukaishima to have pizza and then got another boat back.

I thought it would be a good idea to book a hotel at the top of the hill, which you can see below. The views were good, the walk up and down wasn’t that great, especially in the heat and humidity.

Temple Walk which turned into Cat Alley.

Breakfast at the hotel. They had gone to a lot of trouble to make me a completely vegan breakfast. No dashi even! Unfortunately, the miso also had an astronomical ...

Ehime + Onomichi – Oct 2025_2

Imabari・今治

I don’t want to be awful but unless you love towels (and even then I’d hesitate to recommend it), I wouldn’t go to Imabari (sorry!). We went because, and I have no idea why I thought we would be able to do it, I decided it would be good to do the Shimanami Kaido. I booked us bikes and everything. We didn’t end up doing it, we got the bus instead.

Ikuchi Island・生口島

We stayed a night on this island. It was supposed to be a good midway point to stop and rest. Anyway, they have my favourite ice ...

Ehime + Onomichi – Oct 2025_1

Ozu・大洲

I lived in Ozu in Ehime Prefecture for two years as an ALT from 2012-2014. When I lived there, not much was going on. I used to be in bed at about 8:30pm most nights because there wasn’t really anything else to do. I cycled everywhere, did running as a hobby and had school lunch every day – I was very healthy! I was constantly on cockroach alert and I also had a very real fear of waking up with some kind of centipede walking on me. This happened to two people that I know, so it wasn’t an ...

日本語 notes・3月12日

  • I got asked the other day whether it was harder putting ひな人形 up or putting them away but the word the lady used for putting away was 直す which I hadn’t heard in that context before. I asked my teacher and she said it was dialect and asked where the lady was from. She was from Kumamoto but apparently Kansai and other areas use 直す for 片付ける.
  • 中国本土・ちゅうごくほんど = mainland China
  • 下処理・したしょり = 料理の下準備
  • お手上げだ = 全くどうしようもなくなり，途方にくれること・I don’t know what to do.

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09.03.26

Hair cut on Sunday, just how I usually have it done. At first Mum didn’t notice and then her response when I said was, I was just about to ask if you’d been to the hairdressers (no you weren’t). Then she said, it’s really nice and she kept saying that over and over until I told her to stop. And then she asked a bit later, are you happy with it? That just told me everything I needed to know about her opinion on it. Thanks Mum! ...