A Travel Blog
Today’s is a shorter post which will, I’m sure, not be unwelcome after yesterday’s marathon effort. We spent today with Madoka, her two daughters, Teruka (7) and Shino (2), plus her sister Yuna, and her sons Hiroki (6) and Ryota (20 mths). As you can imagine it was a full on day, but enjoyably so. … Read more
Stop Press! Apologies to our early morning readers for today’s later edition. We were out socialising last night and ran out of puff! Before we get to today’s activities, I want to share some snippets gleaned from the Japan Times over breakfast. News topics included: a panel to discuss joint custody after divorce. It referenced … Read more
It’s silly really! We’ve been waiting, waiting, waiting for the shinkansen route to be completed to Kanazawa, which it finally was after our last visit here in 2011. Woo hoo, we thought, a lovely shinkansen ride to our favourite Japanese city. And then what did we do? We organised an itinerary that had us coming … Read more
Driving-wise, today’s trip was, you would think, a walk in the park, it being just 159 km from Taiji back to Wakayama City. Google said would take 2hrs 33m. This is, in fact, quite slow given over half of it was freeway, which might give you a sense of the roads here – and why, … Read more
But first, today’s activities. Having failed to take it easy the last two days, and with Len’s cold hanging around, we made a concerted effort today to be quiet(er) and achieved it. First goal was doing the laundry, to save us having to battle the very basic facilities at our Wakayama hotel as we did … Read more