A Travel Blog
Yesterday, I mentioned having the local delicacy, hamo (an eel), but Awaji’s real pièce de resistance food-wise is, in fact, the humble onion. Consequently, we saw and ate quite a few onions today, as you will see … A bit about Awajijima I have been saying Awaji, but I really should be saying Awaji Island … Read more
Ah Japan, how we love you! But first, our flight here… The flight I admit to a feeling of dismay when Len told me some time ago that we’d be flying to Japan in a 747! I mean to say, how old are these planes? I remember flying in them back in the early 1980s. … Read more
… which means, roughly,” I’m leaving but am coming back” (though of course I mean “we’re” leaving!) What a good day it is to leave! It turned cold, grey and rainy in Canberra overnight, with today’s maximum being just 12°C. The rain is good, of course, but we are very happy for it to rain … Read more
If you haven’t guessed from the post title, we are about to head off to Japan, making this our fourth trip there. Our previous ones were 2006, 2007 and 2011, all before we started our travel blogs. We love travelling to Japan. There’s so much that we still haven’t seen, and many places we’d love … Read more