One of my 2016 objectives is to get better at photography (hence the book “Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs” in this post). I bought a new camera (a Fujifilm X-A2) in November as well. I am… Continue Reading
Here’s a summary of the hotels (that I can remember) from 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly! The Good I’ve divided “the good” down into “The Decadent”, “The Stylish” and “The Small But Beautiful” The Decadent The Melia, Vienna… Continue Reading
As 2015 draws to a close I wanted to summarise my travels of the last twelve months before embarking on planning the next twelve months! Amsterdam A super fast trip, and not my first to Amsterdam. It was 24 hours with… Continue Reading
First of all- three full days in Tokyo is not enough. I reckon another day and half would have been perfect. However, it is what it is, so here’s how we spent the final day Tokyo. First stop was the… Continue Reading
Since being in Japan, I have read this article in The New York Times Travel section about the future of the Tsukiji Fish Market and how, after next year, it will be moved out of the city. Today we walked… Continue Reading
On our first full day, we started by walking into Akasaka (on the hunt for a Uniqlo and a waterproof coat) and walked from here, through Roppongi to get to Shibuya and the pedestrian scramble. After this, we continued to… Continue Reading
I can’t really write a lot about this, as I had to go and read up on it after seeing it, but “Shichi-Go-San” translates to seven-five-three. Three and seven year old girls and three and five year old boys are… Continue Reading
After 12 hours in the air, fuelled by dishes of somewhat questionable food (here’s a laminated chart, point at the picture you want…this resulted in some slightly and unintentionally undercooked chicken). After getting into the city on the monorail from… Continue Reading
