A Travel Blog
.. and then some … Mysteries solved Statues On our first day in Niigata I photographed some statues and indicated I didn’t know what they were. It was raining and I didn’t take a lot of note, including their (significant) number, but today we retraced those steps and I realised of course that they were … Read more
Today’s plans, devised by Rie with particular input from 6-year-old Tsubasa, took us, mostly, to more rural areas southwest of Niigata City. As we’ve said before, there’s something lovely about having locals take you away from the tried and true. It all started with our being picked up at 10.30am … Sake, or lmaya Tsukasa … Read more
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
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