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
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