
KANAGAWA Region – Hakone, Odawara, Yokohama & Kamakura, Japan
When the world gets back on its feet…. I’m fairly certain all of us who suffer from travel-lust (not just travel writers and tour operators)

When the world gets back on its feet…. I’m fairly certain all of us who suffer from travel-lust (not just travel writers and tour operators)

Dear All, I have something to confess. It’s been almost 12 months since my last blogpost. I’m ashamed. And ever so sorry. It’s just that…

We can’t seriously be at the end of June already? I swear we just arrived back from February’s Japan winter tour? Turns out…. no. We

I like to visit Ohara as regularly as I can. It’s just north of Kyoto city – about an hour in the bus from Kyoto

Disclaimer – this post was stolen from our other blog (eatspeakjl.blogspot.com) and was written in 2015 – but we just stumbled across it and thought

Every so often we get swept away with the colour in Japan. We cannot tell a lie. In fact it’s an every day occurrence whether

Earlier this year I had the great pleasure of introducing Fermentation Guru Sandor Katz to just a small snippet of some of Kyoto’s wonders. He

Naturally I’m rather fond of Japanese architecture but for some reason traditional buildings of the castle variety have never really grabbed me… Nijo Castle is

Well it seems like light years since I published my last blog post here. Things became just a little bit crazy leading up to the 2017

Last week I was blissing out on all the calming green of Kyoto and this week I’m seeing RED. Red, white and black that is. Dramatic,

A couple of years ago one of my clients contacted me about coming along on one of my Japanese cuisine and culture tours. She was keen to

No matter which season you travel to Kyoto in…. you’ll notice the green. At least you will now. From the depths of winter to the
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