I set the alarms on both Karen’s and my phone to make sure we were up at 4.15am as we…

What a difference 24 hours make. Today we woke up to blue skies and lovely warm sunshine. After another passable…

Todays forecast was for rain all day and we couldn’t decide if that would be a good thing or not…

Here we go again, another day where we needed to pack up and check out of our room early ready…

The weather was glorious as we all stepped out onto the street after a good night’s sleep in our new…

It was another early start today as our plan was to visit Mount Fuji & Lake Kawaguchiko. We also had…

Every holiday has it’s one day where not everything goes to plan. As I write this, I hope that today…

This morning after collecting Neil, we headed for what we called ‘The Fluffy Pancake shop’ for breakfast. I think the…

Today was Neil’s first full day in Japan and we knocked on his door just after 9am to get the…

Last year I celebrated my birthday 5 hours later than normal as I was in Florida. This year I celebrated…

Another sleepless night for me, this time of my own doing. I was really thirsty by the time we had…

Today we planned to be up early to get to Fuhimi Inari Taisha to beat the crowds, so typically with…

Not a good night. Despite being in bed around 10.30pm we were both still wide awake at 2pm and then…

Our first full day in Japan started late. I didn’t wake up until 8.30am and then woke up Karen at…

The time difference between the UK & Japan is 8 hours. Therefore despite our body clocks telling us it was…

The first task today was to pick up Sunny, our friendly Car Parking chap from his house. We have used…

It’s only been a short time since we arrived back from Dubrovnik and the time has flown by. This was…