A Travel Blog
You really can’t ask, as a tourist, for anything better than a clear sunny day of 23°C can you – which is what we got today. We spent it doing one main thing, visiting Kairakuen, one of Japan’s top treasure gardens, but the day was as much about the journey (as they say) as about … Read more
Today starts the last hop of our trip. The last hotel stay! The last period of living out of suitcases. We’ll miss Japan, of course, but it is always good to be home too, isn’t it? And, there’s always, with any luck, another time. Last hurrah in Niigata First though, there’s a bit more of … 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
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