Can you tell I am going through some old pictures this week? I can’t understand how I managed to miss posting this one before – taken at sunrise one morning during our trip to pay homage to Mount Fuji last year…I read somewhere that sunrises and sunsets are the most photographed naturally occurring thing […]
Travelling in Japan with Children
Finding Fuji…
We had all been looking forward to our next port of call, not just because of the giant sleeping volcano it’s so famous for – but because this would be the one place in our trip that we would be staying in true Japanese style. Hotel Mizuno does have Western style rooms, but wanting to […]
Tokyo Science Museum
Alice in Wonderland? Not quite, but pretty close! Alice in Tokyo Science Museum – except that she’s not actually called Alice!… If you would like to find out more about this amazing place, then please pop over to the quite brilliant Science Sparks – a site that specialises in making science fun for children, and […]
Meeting Kyoto…
Kyoto – a city of temples, traditions, wooden buildings, and amazing dumpling houses, was quite possibly our favourite place of the entire trip. The hotel we booked by chance – Hotel Brighton Kyoto – was, with its beautiful interior and exemplary staff, most definitely my favourite temporary residence of the entire trip too. Our […]
Volcano Conquering – Omuroyama – Izu Kogen Highlands
Not a family able to relax for long it seems, the next day we set out to explore Izu. First a brief stop at what is quite possibly one of the strangest places I have yet to visit – a Cat Museum chosen by the Small Girl, and which turned out to feature a whole […]