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Looking back at 2009 – Japan, Madrid, Galway and Rome

I’ve been pondering my next trip this morning and it got me thinking about 2009 and how it was easily my most travelled year to date. It started off with heading back from Australia via the States...
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Corinu visits the Peace Museum and A-Bomb Dome – Hiroshima, Japan

Getting up this morning wasn’t an easy task. Rising out of bed at 8.30am, having fallen into it only about 5 hours earlier, I noticed a distinct smell of whisky and noodles emanating from the pile...
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Sweaty Kilts, dried sharks and a Japanese wedding at Izumo Taisha, Shimane

It’s Wedding day for Ryan and Keiko, and it seemed a little jet-lag had crept in. I was up around 11am, kicked out of bed by richard as he’d been up since 7am due to the time difference. I was...
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Jiminy Cricket the soprano and a semi: Shrines and bugs in Izumo, Japan

Cycling around Izumo on a pair of borrowed bikes (one classic granny bike, big cow-horn handlebars’n all – one totally broken mountain bike, wheels threatening to detach from the frame at any...
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