A Travel Blog
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
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
… you walk up and down lots and lots and lots of steps, more than 51 floors’ worth today, in fact. This, would you believe, was our “let’s take it easy day”! Ha ha! Oh well. Kumano Kodo When we considered making Wakayama our main new part of Japan to visit this trip, two “sites” … Read more
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