Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
The first of three hotels I’m staying at on this 10 day trip to Nagoya – Toyota City. There are a number of 3 star establishments on the west side of Nagoya Station with affordable room rates. The Via Inn
About a 20 minute drive — or a 7.6km walk if one is up to it — is Tsumago-juku, the next post town along the Nakasendo Trail after Magome-juku. Magome was busy, while Tsumago was, in comparison, much more laid
Many visitors to Nagoya would routinely try to find time for a day trip to the area’s post towns that lie along the famous Nakasendo Trail, an ancient samurai route that connected the old city of Edo (Tokyo today) to
Our second stop was about 50 minutes away from Eihoji Temple: a bridge located in Ena Gorge that crosses over the Kiso River. The bridge isn’t anything particularly different from other similarly styled high bridges over rivers, but it was
I have about three full days of free time – basically the weekends before and after the conference I’m attending again this year in Japan – so I set about finding things to do and explore in Nagoya. This is
There’s been a lack of posts over the last few months about our year-end travel intentions, and it’s been largely because the wife made a comment that had me going back to look up my old drawer itineraries. And that
The wife is of course particularly interested in visiting Taiwan this year-end, whereas for myself, I’m still undecided! The Taiwan itinerary I posted in the last entry would have been pretty dense and we’d be covering a lot. But the
We’re still stuck between Taiwan or South Korea for our year-end trip this December. For the last week, though, I’d been developing, checking, and refining a workable 20-day return visit to Taiwan itinerary, and also trying as far as possible
We’ve normally always started putting together our plans for our year-end vacation in the second half of the year – i.e. in June–July. This year, we started super early! This has been in part because we’d just be doing a
In terms of total time spent away on vacation, this 18-day trip to South Korea hasn’t been our longest: the honor for that goes to our Dec 2023 trip to the Chubu and Kanto regions of Japan: that trip was
We saw a number of signs that made us chuckle/giggle/ROFL this trip! South Koreans certainly have a good sense of humor, intentional or not. A number of these I posted to Facebook; but here is a selection of some of
This is the first of two last posts on our trip, and I’m jotting down my notes on how each equipment item that came for the trip fared. I’m comparing this trip to the one in Chubu-Kanto Japan last December
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