A Travel Blog
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
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