Nothing Compares To You – Galapagos, Petra, Kurayami
This is the fifth post in the Travel Highlights Series sharing some of the most enduring highlights of all our …
This is the fifth post in the Travel Highlights Series sharing some of the most enduring highlights of all our …
12-25 March 2019. My first time in Japan was in 2018, and I’ve written about how I tried to take …
25 March 2019. You really need to see this place! I know you love a bargain, and this place is …
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 …
18 March 2019 I really wanted to hike the Nakasendō, a 534-kilometre ancient highway between Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo). It …
12-25 March 2019 I’m either too early or too late. The best time to see the wisteria in Tokyo is …
13-14 March 2019 It begins with a long mournful drone on conch shells. The sound fills the air like a …
A short anecdote about childhood curiosity: When I was ten years old and living in Melbourne, I was in a …
11-26 March 2019 After thirty hours of non-stop travel from Delhi we finally arrive at our Airbnb in the Gion …
20 March 2019. The houses are lined along the shore like soldiers, creating an organic seam that joins the sea …
27 April-16 May 2018. Trains I’m on a train from suburban Fuchu heading back to my hostel in Central Tokyo …
2 May 2018. I met a man on the train going to the Shibazakura Festival. He bragged about being a …
14 May 2018. I take the train past the stop for Arashiyama and travel on to Kameoka. I’d read that …