The Great Outdoors

If you know me, you'll know it's a rare event for me to call anything outdoors 'great'.
I'm an indoors girl through and through. The so called great outdoors generally just doesn't work for me. It's either too hot, too cold, too sandy, too muddy, too wet, too dirty, too filled with bugs for my liking- and don't get me started on my issues with sitting on grass!

That said- I do appreciate a good view (whilst trying to ignore the fact that my trainers are getting covered in mud)- and last weekend I got to experience the Japanese Autumnal pastime of leaf viewing. Yes- they take time out to admire the change in season and the gorgeous colours the leaves change to before Winter kicks in and they all die. (Not looking forward to Winter at all...)

My neighbours took me away overnight to a place called Tottori. We stayed in a lush hotel and the next morning we went to the Tottori sand dunes. We're talking points where you are surrounded by sand as far as the eye can see. I had been before at the height of summer and yelped in pure pain as stupidly hot sand filled my shoes and burnt my feet; so this time it was nice to trek the huge hills of sand and pretend I was a wandering nomad in the desert...



We also went to Mount Daisen which is the highest peak in the Chugoku region (the south western end of Japan's main island) and apparently has been chosen as one of the best one hundred mountains in Japan,(that's a lot of mountains!)and to Tottori Hanakairo Flower Park.



Anyway- less entry, on with more scenery...







And finally, meet Halcali :)