One frustration I have with some travel blogs is that you usually hear about exciting events after they have happened. Several times I have read about a fantastic festival, and wish that I’d known about it previously. So here’s one that’s coming up.

A snowy T-rex with beads of frozen saliva.

The 2009 Sapporo Snow Festival ( Sapporo Yuki Matsuri ) will be held February 5 through February 11. You can read more details about visiting Hokkaido in winter here.  

This photograph brings back a lot of memories for me as it came from the first roll of film I put in my first SLR camera way back in February 2000.