A Travel Blog
LenAndSue WHERRY I hope to make this a shorter post as it’s been mostly a day on the move. However, it does give me an opportunity to make a few more observations. If they bore you, just skip down to Wakayama Castle and Food for the holiday stuff! The first observation concerns climate change and the environment. … Read more
Some observations It’s time to comment on the technical challenges involved in – not to be too coy about it – toileting and abluting. You do need your wits about you. For example, with the fancy Japanese toilets, there are options. Some automatically flush and some don’t (and if they don’t where is the flush … Read more
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
… 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