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The sea-route to Singapore: 6th – 14th November 2024
Read more: The sea-route to Singapore: 6th – 14th November 2024Weather issues have been instrumental in a couple of changes to our route and may yet play more of a role as we head west towards Singapore. Our first unanticipated stop was in Kaohsiung in Taiwan, a surprisingly sunny part of the world with 300 days of sunshine a year. We took an Oceania tour…
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Leaving Japan the slow way: 29th October – 4th November 2024
Read more: Leaving Japan the slow way: 29th October – 4th November 2024There are pluses and minuses to travelling on a cruise ship. The biggest plus for us was seeing some previously unvisited parts of the world prior to arriving in Sydney on the 2nd Dec. The biggest minus is often having just a few hours to get out and see or do something memorable, if indeed…
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Japan: 20th October – 28th October 2024
Read more: Japan: 20th October – 28th October 2024Released from the group into the Japanese wilderness we left Iruka by bus, caught the 4 hour train to Osaka and said our goodbyes. Our temporary new home was a 30+ storey hotel over the station but our early arrival meant we could catch a bullet train to Kyoto for some sightseeing. However, being a…
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Japan: 8th Oct – 20th Oct 2024
Read more: Japan: 8th Oct – 20th Oct 2024The flight from Manchester was uneventful except for a frenetic change in Dubai plus, on both flights the legroom was a little tight…. We arrived in Tokyo in a rainstorm early evening although it was already dark. Felt like home! Our first interaction with the Japanese was with our very young driver who picked us…
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Round the world 2024-2025: unfinished business
Read more: Round the world 2024-2025: unfinished businessIt is 4 years since we initially planned to travel with Keiko Holmes and Agape World on a reconciliation trip to Japan to meet with the son of a Japanese soldier my father had kept a photo of since being a FEPOW (Far East Prisoner of War). 2020 saw the trip cancelled due to the…