After our trip to Bignor Roman Villa (see last post) We arrived at Fishbourne Roman Palace. This is pretty famous in the

This August, we came back to the UK, to see my family located in Kent. My wife wanted to see some of the country also, s

The Tanabata festival takes place all over Japan in July. People decorate bamboo with little pieces of coloured paper wi

Saturday was hot, really hot and with some humidity added in to the mix, the best place to go was either an air conditio

We went to Odawara today. I wanted to see the castle and the flowers there again, but we remembered another festival we

For the next three weeks at the bottom of the long slope that runs down from the grounds of Odawara castle, there's an i

This golden week (on Thursday) we drove to Tago Town in Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture and went canoeing around the beautiful

On Saturday, we decided to climb Mt. Kintoki in Hakone, right on the border between Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures in

We drove to Oshino last week from Mishima. The journey only took 45 minutes on the new highway, on which you get off at

Yesterday we took a quick day trip to Hatsushima Island. The island is a short 30 minute ferry journey from Atami City i

Two weeks ago now, we went for a cycle ride to Shuzenji, in Shizuoka prefecture, from Mishima along the Daiba and Kano R

This year, for me, was one of the best for seeing cherry blossoms. Usually I miss the peak time and its usually a fleeti

We took a brief trip to Tokyo a couple of weeks ago, just to get away from the peak of the bozosoku season in Mishima, w

We went to the local sports and outdoor shop and bought an inflatable double man canoe. It was about 45,000 yen. We took

Our last day in Hokkaido was really only a half day, as we had to get back to the airport for our flight. After buying s

Today we got a rental car for driving around the area east of Sapporo. We first went to the Sapporo Beer Factory in the

For day 2 we took the train to Otaru from Sapporo. We got off at Minami-Otaru, because we wanted to get another stamp fr

Recently, we took a trip to Hokkaido. We stayed for 3 nights, 4 days. We flew in to New Chitose Airport at about 2pm on

The Kano river flows down to the sea at Numazu in Shizuoka, but further up, it is formed from the rivers Nekokoshi and H

This was one of the last beaches we went to this year. Its pretty near to our house in Mishima and so, easy to get to on