Japan, Dec 2010 – Assorted Pictures – Part 1

I’m about sorting through the 2,609 pictures and about 3 hrs 20 minutes of HD video taken during the Japan trip, and selected a couple of other pictures I haven’t posted up here yet. They’re quite a few but they

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Kobe, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka: Reflections on the trip – Part 3

Part 3 of our notes on our 10.5 day trip! The Currency One thing I absolutely do not like is the fact that you get loose change from every dining and retail establishment that are maddeningly difficult to reuse in

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Kobe, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka: Reflections on the trip – Part 1

Our 11:30 PM flight home from Kansai International Airport back to Changi in Singapore was remarkably smooth in one respect. I was semi-conscious until I was awaken seconds before midnight by the SQ pilot leading the cabin crew and all

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