Oh deer! Nara – Japan’s Ancient Capital
21 March 2019. We know about the deer of course. It seems they are the first thing we come to, …
21 March 2019. We know about the deer of course. It seems they are the first thing we come to, …
From the beginning of time we humans have worshipped mountains. They are the highest and most impressive elements of any …
Feb-Mar 2019 and Feb-Mar 2020 Rishikesh, India. Back in August I wrote this to close a post about India: In …
18 March 2019 I really wanted to hike the Nakasendō, a 534-kilometre ancient highway between Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo). It …
5 March 2019 We first went to India in 2012 and lived in Tiruvannamalai in the southern state of Tamil …
12-25 March 2019 I’m either too early or too late. The best time to see the wisteria in Tokyo is …
When I travelled in my twenties and early thirties I never wanted to go to India. I’d heard of the …
15 March 2020 There are two things I remember about the very long bus ride from Sepilok to the lodge …
13-14 March 2019 It begins with a long mournful drone on conch shells. The sound fills the air like a …
She begins high in the Himalayas, a rivulet from the Gangotri Glacier that becomes a stream that becomes a river …
13-17 March 2020 Initially Don didn’t want to go at all. As usual when we’re planning a trip he checks …
A short anecdote about childhood curiosity: When I was ten years old and living in Melbourne, I was in a …
10 Feb-10 Mar 2019 and 10 Feb-9 Mar 2020 I recently read an opinion piece in India’s The Telegraph by …
10-12 March 2020 We didn’t really know what to expect of Kuching, on the northwest edge of Borneo, other than …