Here we go again

Well, here we are again – off on another adventure.  Drinks in the Malaysian Airlines Lounge at Melbourne Airport, sustaining ourselves for an overnight to Kuala Lumpur, a few hours in transit then a flight through to Tokyo, for 4 weeks on the ground in Japan.  It’s a long time since I’ve been there and the Princess is looking forward to her first experience in this beautiful place.

A lot of research on her part has ensured that we have an itinerary taking in most of the highlights that Honshu has to offer and in a number of places, Jules has organised “greeters”, or volunteer guides, to get us away from the main attractions and it will allow us to see the more unusual and out-of-the-way places, so that we can experience the local colour.

A week in Tokyo will be followed by 2 nights in Takayama in the mountains to the west, then another 2 nights in Kanazawa on the west coast.  If you’ve been following Adam Liaw, that’s where his wife’s family comes from and his show highlighted the town, just this week.  From there we go to Kyoto, Hiroshima and then Osaka and a few days in KL on the way home.

So follow along and we’ll try to paint the picture, in words and photos, of this most beautiful country.