Bullet trains are cool, the atomic bomb was not. Greetings fans! Another day for us here in Japan, and boy was it a hot one: 32 degrees Celsius with enough humidity to leave you sticky and sweaty, even at 7:00am. What a great day to be packing up […]
Our last day in Osaka was spent shopping & losing ourselves in the underground malls. We spent our last day in Osaka doing some “house-keeping” (i.e. catching up on emails, booking a hotel for our next stop and doing laundry – when you’ve only got 3 t-shirts, regular […]
1200 years of history all in a day at Koya-san. Today’s adventure took us to Koya-san (Mount Koya). Some 66 kms south of Osaka, this tiny mountain-top village is home to 6,000 Buddhist monks and nuns, no fewer than 30 temples, countless shrines and the oldest and most […]
Breakfast before castles. Every epic journey should start with a good wholesome breakfast. So, ignoring the recommendation of our fawningly helpful hosts to go for a vending machine breakky, we started the day with a wander to the Osaka train station thinking we’d find something savoury and awesome […]
The Beginning (sort of). We made it! We had 5 things to achieve today and all have been successfully ticked off : Get to Brisbane airport on time, check in for BOTH flights (i.e. Brisbane to Seoul then Seoul to Osaka), ensuring our bags are checked straight through […]
Wandering Soles 