My holiday, two weeks in Japan, was very enjoyable. We managed to cope with the various train journeys to the different places we were staying, but it showed me how much information you glean, even from a language that you don't understand, when it is written in the Roman script we use in the West. By contrast, while I find Japanese script beautiful, it tells me nothing at all. But we did it, helped by the presence of roman-script signs in most stations and very helpful locals!
Saw some amazing craft-works, beautiful buildings, woodblock printing, snow monkeys bathing in hot springs...many things which I hope will give me some new images to use in my painting. Kept a journal, including sketches, to remind me of stuff, photos too obviously. But in general I take dreadful photos. I'm not sure why. But whatever it is that makes you a good photographer I do not have it!
Still fighting the jet-lag right now. A nine hour difference is not a trivial thing!
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