2023 – Asia

It’s easy to tell the difference between a day on a tour and a typical day on our own. When on a tour there’s usually a lot planned and you’

Today in Nagano the Metropolitan Hotel has a very full, very good buffet breakfast. Asian soups, dishes, smoked fish, and even a big bottle

We’ve just had one day (two nights) in Tokyo but it’s already time to head out, at least for a short while. In our quest for peak sakura (cherry blossom

We wake up to our first full day in Japan and in Tokyo and sure enough it’s raining. It’s our only full day in Tokyo, so we’re a bit sad. We

Last night, which was our last night in Seoul, we spent at an enormous hotel with two big towers of rooms. So it’s only fitting that there’s

For the first time in a long while we’re on our own. It’s a free day in Seoul and our last full day in Korea. We need to switch our hotel

When it rains it pours! Well, thankfully it’s not raining, but our dance card for the day is very full. If all goes according to plan, we’ll

We’re (mostly) all accounted for at 8am in the lobby. I have my brand new teeshirt that I’d bought from the Cambodian dancers (just to support

We stop for a coffee, the first for most of the group today as it isn’t an option at breakfast at the monastery. I reach for my wallet and realize

In the morning we luxuriate in our nice hotel rooms for a bit longer, packing, showering, flushing the toilet by merely sitting on it. We get