Ise-ji Day 5: Owase to Kata
It’s worth pointing out that by now we were both exhausted from four continuous…
Ise-ji Day 4: Furusato Onsen to Owase
It’s rare for me to get a good nights sleep in a tent but…
Ise-ji Day 3: Ise-Kashiwazaki to Furusato Onsen
The day started early at Minpaku Idobata with the usual savoury Japanese breakfast of…
Ise-ji Day 2: Noasobimura to Ise-Kashiwazaki
After a somewhat restless night in the tent, instead of retracing our steps back…
Ise-ji Day 1: Ise City to Noasobimura
After rising at a spritely 6 am we visited Ise Jingu Geku near our…
Ise-ji Day 0: Ise City
After completing the Shikoku Pilgrimage in 2016, I walked the Kohechi route of the…
Asia Book Review
Although I enjoy books, I’m a glacially slow reader and in a normal year…
Autumn in Kamakura
Looking through my photo archive for 2020, there’s a big black hole from February…
Le Chien à la Fenêtre
On the road where we used to live in Tokyo, there was a nondescript…
Escaping The Megalopolis
You could say that COVID was the straw that broke the camels back, but…
A Walk Through Siena
In my final post from pre-COVID Tuscany, we visit the city of Siena for…
Morning in Lucca
Back on a frosty morning at the end of December 2019, we spend a…