My Neighbour Totoro first came into our lives a few years ago (after a brief trip to Tokyo for Mr R.). Since then, The Small People have been pretty much obsessed with everything Studio Ghibli (one of the more famous (and family friendly) anime film studios of Japan!)… It is them I have to thank […]
Travel
Sunday Photo – Girl With Umbrella – Kyoto
Girl with umbrella, Kyoto…
How to Survive Your First Japanese Onsen
I have so many Japan posts to write up when we get home (and which I will undoubtedly bore you to death with soon enough!), but in the meantime, here’s a post on how to Survive your First Japanese Onsen. I wrote it on the Shinkansen from Kyoto to Tokyo yesterday, it was a three-hour […]
Sunday Photo – Puffer Fish Statue – Japan
Giant Puffer Fish Statue – above a shop that sells exactly that… Tokyo
Big in Japan
A note to explain why I might be quiet for the next few days… We are currently travelling in Japan, and inbetween sightseeing, trying to keep up with the Small People, and with Mr R (who, having lived here for a while, seems to be on a mission to eat everything on a precompiled list […]





