Friday, August 22, 2008

Back from minitrip around hokkaido

Got back from trip on tue night and was lotsa fun, drove around heaps
ate lots of good food. Candie didnt bother us too much which was
always nice :P Check out the photos on facebook... theres lots :)

oh and speaking of good food, last night we went to an all you can eat
crab place. $36 and basically you have 90 minutes exactly (they
literally tell you to leave) to eat as much crab as you want. the $36
package got you crab legs and a bit of body attached, for $60 you get
body too (but that was a bit too expensive). But either way between
3 people we finished 12 half crabs, so i think we got our $36 worth of
crab. and they give you scissors/nutcrackers so its quite efficient.
We went for the king crab/snow crab leg combo. The snow crabs were a
bit sweeter i thought, but the king crabs were much more `meaty`.

Roads here are really really nice, but the speed limit system here is
ridiculously stupid. A normal 80~100kmh road in Australia is sign
posted here at about 40kmh. Which of course leads to everybody
speeding, but the tricky thing is nobody really knows how much to
speed so everybody goes at different speeds which makes it kinda
frustrating is you have to keep overtaking every second car. Havent
actually seen any police on the road, but they do have occasional big
overhead obvious speed cameras which again were not sure if they work,
as on a road signed at 40kmh everyone slows down from 100 to about 70
to drive through the speed camera.  So ive decided my ultimate goal
here is to Hire a GTR/some other nice sports car, get a radar detector
(apparently legal here) and just go nuts :D only problem is that the
best car ive found so far is a s2000 which has a 100km limit... poo...
oh well... on with the search :P

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