A Travel Blog
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
Some observations It’s time to comment on the technical challenges involved in – not to be too coy about it – toileting and abluting. You do need your wits about you. For example, with the fancy Japanese toilets, there are options. Some automatically flush and some don’t (and if they don’t where is the flush … Read more
Yesterday, I mentioned having the local delicacy, hamo (an eel), but Awaji’s real pièce de resistance food-wise is, in fact, the humble onion. Consequently, we saw and ate quite a few onions today, as you will see … A bit about Awajijima I have been saying Awaji, but I really should be saying Awaji Island … Read more
Ah Japan, how we love you! But first, our flight here… The flight I admit to a feeling of dismay when Len told me some time ago that we’d be flying to Japan in a 747! I mean to say, how old are these planes? I remember flying in them back in the early 1980s. … Read more
… which means, roughly,” I’m leaving but am coming back” (though of course I mean “we’re” leaving!) What a good day it is to leave! It turned cold, grey and rainy in Canberra overnight, with today’s maximum being just 12°C. The rain is good, of course, but we are very happy for it to rain … Read more