Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵

Hokkaido resident since 2007. Skiing, hiking, motorcycles. My wife runs a cat hotel in Sapporo. Admirer of sunrises.

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@konichivalue @LondonBento They have a child as well, so three people

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

This is blowing up a bit on the other place. The husband is changing jobs and his salary is dropping from 12-16mil to 8 and the wife is wondering how to live on 8. Stop taking taxis and Ubers? Only travel once a year? Stop using vending machines?

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

Ah yes, the American Eiffel Tower😂Classy!

[ABC News @ABC]

President Trump is floating the possibility of keeping the UFC arena on the White House South Lawn — built for a series of fights on his birthday and Flag Day — permanently.

Read more: https://t.co/PdI3ZarEYr

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@LondonBento If the exchange rate stays the same as it is now, then that is probably a good plan.

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@DalesTranslator Spawn of FB. The place that was supposed to be a refuge from the toxicity of Twitter but the Japanese side at least actually ended up being 100 times worse😂I do get a lot more local content there, than here, so I haven’t managed to delete it.

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

Sapporo dawn ride

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@LondonBento Maybe true, but the average wage here is 5 million, so 8 definitely isn’t exactly poverty line. There are other wives in the comments saying you need 30mil as a household to live comfortably in Tokyo, which seems somewhat excessive…

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@kamuro_yokai @Durf Britain of the East😂

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

What is truly “real”? Certainly not all those temples and shrines that were built for tourists. Day drinking in Nishinari? Soapland? Keirin? Pachinko parlour?

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@Struan_Tokyo If he had been arrrested surely the police would let the parents know when they went to them for the missing person report. Personal issues maybe?

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@davidrmunson Interesting times ahead! It will change your life in many ways. It will bring you into contact with Japan on new levels that you won’t have experienced before if you didn’t grow up here

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@kevinthomashur1 @PaprikaGirl_JP I wish to have a unique, non touristy experience. I will ask a forum full of tourists for advice on how to achieve that😂

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@DalesTranslator @haradatora You seemed taller on Twitter 😂

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

My first job in Tokyo was at the Australia-Japan foundation over 30 years ago!

[MOFA of Japan @MofaJapan_en]

2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation between Japan and Australia and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Australia-Japan Foundation. To commemorate this, the Diplomatic Archives will co-host a special exhibition with the Australian Embassy in Japan from June 17 to August 1.
#Australia
https://t.co/I4eNQ1O1O3

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

New floof!

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@haradatora @DalesTranslator Yes, I worked that out with my wonderful maths skills. I meant the pom😂

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@DalesTranslator @haradatora Are you around the same height?

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@ClumsyInquirer She has forgotten about me already. She is my wife’s cat

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

Hime-chan is much friendlier to me while my wife is away. I am the almighty snacks dispenser!

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@haradatora Used to be 178cm but according to my latest health check I have shrunk to 177😭

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@haradatora Haha. We can swap clothes! I actually got down to 64kg at the peak of my cycling career. Inspired a lot of jokes about just having been released from a POW camp from my wife. Not the best of looks!

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@haradatora my current weight.

[Hokkaido Dreamin'🇦🇺🇯🇵 @dadsweb67]

@haradatora That’s half the battle! I’ve gotten rid of my snacking and don’t feel the urge to have something sweet at the end of meals at moment. Hopefully those little habits won’t creep back. I’m contemplating getting the very expensive pair of riding leather pants I want to lock me in at