Hakone
08 Oct 2006
Carlos organized a nice evening for my birthday. First we went for a drink at our favorite bar Crazy Horse, run by Motoko and Yuko. There we meet Mark, Helena and Yuko. We all go for a nice Italian dinner and I get presents, always nice.
We ended the evening in Japanese style: with karaoke. Carlos and I sang La Bamba. We didn’t do half bad, since nobody left the bar...
A few days later we went to Yokohama for a meeting. We stayed for the weekend and visit Hakone, together with René Scheffer, a colleague from Holland.
We take the train and first visit the open air museum. A colleague had recommended it to us. Initially we thought it was a historic museum, but it turned out to be an art museum and indeed worth visiting.
After that we continued by bus. At Owakudani Station we had a beautiful view over a crater, formed by a volcanic explosion about 3,000 years ago.
We end with a boat trip over the Ashino-ko lake. Unfortunately the weather wasn’t so great, otherwise we could have seen Mt. Fuji from the boat.
We ended the evening in Japanese style: with karaoke. Carlos and I sang La Bamba. We didn’t do half bad, since nobody left the bar...
A few days later we went to Yokohama for a meeting. We stayed for the weekend and visit Hakone, together with René Scheffer, a colleague from Holland.
We take the train and first visit the open air museum. A colleague had recommended it to us. Initially we thought it was a historic museum, but it turned out to be an art museum and indeed worth visiting.
After that we continued by bus. At Owakudani Station we had a beautiful view over a crater, formed by a volcanic explosion about 3,000 years ago.
We end with a boat trip over the Ashino-ko lake. Unfortunately the weather wasn’t so great, otherwise we could have seen Mt. Fuji from the boat.