After a couple of week-ends busy in Tokyo, we got away to the Nagano house. As we crossed the hills from Tokyo to Nagano, the snow started. It didn’t stop and we finally got out of it as we crossed the hills back to Tokyo on the Sunday night. The skies dropped 10-15cm of snow whilst we were there and it made for an entertaining slide/drive down the hill from the house as we were leaving. Last year was one of the heaviest snowfalls in twenty plus year so the pundits were saying that this year would be lighter. That has yet to be proven but it certainly arrived early. A good relaxing week-end though arriving to a freezing house is less than fun for the first few hours. Once the fires had done their job, inside was relaxed T-shirt dress code whilst we could watch the snow fall as below shows. What a difference from three weeks ago!
