After a walk round the Hiroshima Peace Park during which we had 3 seasons in 45 mins, we headed back to the station to catch the train and ferry out to Miyajima.
Miyajima was a sight to see. The fat furry deer with white heart bottoms, the wide variety of the same souvenirs in shop after shop, very yummy grilled oysters on a stick and of course the various shrines, temples and of course the gate. It was just after low tide when we went out this afternoon and we have made plans to go back early tomorrow morning to see the gate “floating” at high tide.
Well Georgie and I have survived the Jetstar flight from the Gold Coast to Osaka. We were really surprised with the quality of the plane, was expecting a more AirAsia like plane. Would fly JetStar international again for sure. After a few little confusions we made it Shin-Osaka YH, really nice hostel. Great views over the city and we had a 4-6 bed dorm to ourselves.
We decided to hedge our bets and have Indian for dinner – no language problems and I think the staff were grateful to have English speaking customers. It was a good meal. 1200 yen for rice, curry, crunchy salad, a massive naan, chai and mango ice cream. Wish we had Indian for that price back home!
We had a look in some corner stores and found some interesting goods – pringles with a little container of dipping sauce! Also found almond Kit-Kats are creme caramel Kit-Kats! I remember when I first saw Japanese Kit-Kats on the Floating World Views blog, I knew that when I got to Japan I would be hunting down as many flavours as I could find.
We are currently on the Hikata bullet train on the way to Hiroshima.
Well not quite but almost. I got my tooth today, it’s been a day that I’ve been waiting for since I was 10 or 11 years old and the OPG showed that I was missing an adult tooth. I was so excited that I managed to burn my thumb with the straightener this morning – why on earth I thought it was a good idea to pick it by the plates was a good idea, I’ll never know.
So this is my tooth. It’s not perfect yet, it will get reshaped slightly and the brightness toned down a bit when I come back from Japan but the important thing at the moment is for my gum to start accepting it and growing round it.
I’ll tell you right it was a mighty weird feeling the first time I ate something this afternoon and just as my tongue moves round my mouth, it can’t poke itself between the gap any more.
Tomorrow – I have work (of course), I get my tooth implant, I’ve got postgrad orientation stuff to do at uni and then I have The Whitlams with the QSO tomorrow night.
Friday – Work and then straight to the airport to catch a flight to Hobart.
Saturday – Wedding of my cousin on the beach at Coles Bay/Freycinet
Sunday – Post wedding activities and flying home Sunday night.
Monday – Work and first uni lecture
Tuesday – Fly to Japan for 2 weeks. (Yeah, I’ll be missing four classes – two for each subject, whilst I’m away)
I’m so crazy looking forward to going to Japan. G (one of my best girl friends) and I are going to have a blast (literally as they having a bit of a cold snap at the moment and it is forecast to snow for the days we are up in the alps!!!).
It’s going to be crazy. I bought a new lens the other week, the 28mm 1.8 which will be one of the two lenses I’m taking to Japan, the other will be the 50mm 1.4. I was thinking of taking my 16-35mm 2.8 but it is a heavy piece of glass. I took a few photos with the 28mm the other day and I’m impressed
In getting ready for my Japan trip in oh 11 days, I’ve been looking at what I can do get the most out of my phone whilst I’m away. This is my first trial at using the WordPress app for Android.
These chocolates are from Hachez in Bremen, I ate a lot of this chocolate when I was in Germany after finishing year 12. I was quite delighted to find them at the confectionery warehouse on the weekend.
Can you spot the Figgjo Annemarie plate? I also put a little surprise in these with a spoonful of crushed pistachios in the centre. Also I only used pistachio meal in the shells instead of blend of almond and pistachio meal that I saw in some recipes.
The pistachio ones looked the most like commercial macarons, they had a better foot and the top was glossier but some of the tops were domed and cracked. My reading would indicate that this is because I may have over mixed the pistachio meal and sugar into the egg white mixture. The chocolate ones I believe I the eggwhite mixture was too stiff and thus they mixture wasn’t as quite as runny as it should be. This is all a big learning curve and most importantly I can say that they all tasted delicious.
Chocolate, Chocolate and Chocolate
These of course are on a Figgjo Lotte plate 🙂 Some of these had a squirt of ganache in the centre and then butter cream round that or vice versa with butter cream in the centre. My favourite ones to look at though are the ones where I piped ganache on one side and butter cream on the other side.
I ended up with 60 odd macarons and they certainly didn’t last long at work.
