A Travel Blog
And so we arrived at departure day, a day full of warnings about Super Typhoons and the subsequent cancellation of World Cup rugby matches. We were a little anxious, but our research suggested that the typhoon would not hit Tokyo until Saturday, many hours after our Friday 8:05pm scheduled departure. Still, we were relieved to … Read more
I’ll start today’s post with the important stuff – a report on my ankle! It’s a little sore, has a nice bruise developing, but is functional. I thank everyone for their concern. I was pretty lucky, really, and put some of it down to Japanese hotel facilities. Japanese hotels, like American ones, tend to have … Read more
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’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
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