A Travel Blog
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
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
Already I can see that there’s no way we’ll be able to see all there is to offer here in this mountainous prefecture. Distances aren’t great, but you can’t travel very fast. The roads just aren’t straight enough or wide enough. We decided to take it easy today: just check out a couple of nearby … 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
Setting off After a standard, but perfectly acceptable Toyoko Inn breakfast buffet, we set off in search of our hire car, and were pretty soon introduced to our very own boxy car, a Toyota Roomy. There are SO many models of cars here that we don’t have in Australia. On Awaji, our car was a … Read more