Break your routines when priorities change

I have been posting a blog post everyday for more than 2 years now and if I skipped a day because of travel for example I would make up for this with two posts a day

But today I decided to give myself a break for few days because me and my wife are hosting four visiting friends from Osaka

I want to fully commit my presence to their visit

We will be taking them to different places in Gifu, Aichi and Nagano prefectures

Surely something interesting will happen

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