Wet weather, magnificent mountain scenery covered in by clouds, a terse exchange with a vacuous local who treated the foreigner like an exhibit in the zoo, and a railway signal breakdown causing an almost unheard of 2 hour train delay. That sounds like a bad weekend, but a getaway to Kiyosato was actually not a bad escape from Tokyo.
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Sculpture park, wine tasting, a picnic with the kookaburras and soaking in an onsen
Today’s trip took around 16 of us on a minibus to three wineries on the Mornington Peninsula, with some other assorted stops along the way. Well done Glen for organising and being tour-guide/announcer. Keeping with the Japanese theme, we finished at the Peninsula Hot Springs, a Japanese-style onsen next to the Moonah Links golf course at… Continue reading Sculpture park, wine tasting, a picnic with the kookaburras and soaking in an onsen