Japan 2024

Back to Winter

As promised, today we work our way back, but we still had half a day to relax a little. And being in the country of trains ... we looked at more trains. Up to

03 Oct 2024
Germany Japan 2023

Home in blue skies ... again!

Yesterday was probably the worst rain of the trip, even if I managed to dodge it all and my brand new umbrella is still nicely wrapped up. And today ... absolutely nothing. Because I'm

11 Aug 2023
Germany Japan 2023

Heading halfway home

Hmm, my favorite, waking up before 7am so that I can drive to the airport, return the rental car, be able to check in my luggage, and have enough spare time such that

04 Aug 2023
Germany Japan 2023

Leg Room?!

I made it! But at what cost? 36 hours of flying, waiting a bunch, getting on a longer flight that decides to take the long way around, waiting a bunch more, getting on

15 Jul 2023
Germany Japan 2023

The great escape of 2023

Four blog entries ago it was still 2019. It has been that long since I have managed to leave this country. And today, we change that!Okay, maybe not. But we're working on

12 Jul 2023
Europe 2019

Skipping Sydney

Holidays! Oh how I've missed you. Planes! I have not missed you one bit. While I continue to be fascinated by the technology and love to see planes from the outside, I seem

07 May 2019
Transit

Duck Adventures

Getting up at 5 in the morning isn't really my strong point, and it wasn't improved by the realisation that I had been awake for over four hours when I boarded my first

18 Apr 2015
Transit

Tokyo (東京)

Our usual method of getting out of the country involved driving to the nearest city and flying from there. This time we decided to spoil ourselves and fly to the nearest city instead.

09 Apr 2015
Transit

The Long Road/Ocean Back

Today was for the race back to the ferry. We didn't spend as much time as we would have wanted on the last remaining sights on our way, but we also wanted to

14 Feb 2015