{"id":63,"date":"2005-08-06T12:15:17","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T03:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tanuki.hardfocus.ca\/~abire\/marknavin\/wordpress\/?p=63"},"modified":"2013-01-02T16:33:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:33:34","slug":"summer-holiday-dont-laugh-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Summer Holiday (don&#8217;t laugh) 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europeans will laugh that someone can consider a three day week-end the summer holiday, but unfortunately some countries are not so enlightened. Anyway, the Tokyo summer heatwave is in full swing.\u00a0 Hot, sticky and generally unpleasant.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up in North Queensland, Australia so this weather is &lt;shrug&gt; normal for me.\u00a0 Easy to adjust &#8211; don&#8217;t be in a hurry, stay out of the sun and accept that perspiration comes with the territory.\u00a0 Unfortunately, assumed in this is that the environment is not total concrete and bitumen (does that sound like most of Tokyo &#8211; yes!) and that buildings and housing are designed to allow the flow of air (does that sound like most of Tokyo &#8211; no!).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we got away late on the Friday and some three hours later found us at &#8216;The Lodge&#8217; near Kurohime outside Nagano on the side of a mountain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/lodge20050806.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-181\" title=\"Gokurosama Lodge 2005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/lodge20050806.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/lodge20050806.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/lodge20050806-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much cooler with doors\/windows open and lots of greenery to rest the eyes. So we have three days of this before back to the Tokyo heat.\u00a0 Now where was that next drink?&#8230;..&lt;shrug&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europeans will laugh that someone can consider a three day week-end the summer holiday, but unfortunately some countries are not so enlightened. Anyway, the Tokyo summer heatwave is in full swing.\u00a0 Hot, sticky and generally unpleasant. I grew up in North Queensland, Australia so this weather is &lt;shrug&gt; normal for me.\u00a0 Easy to adjust &#8211; &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/?p=63\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}