The first two days in London were so intense that we did not have time to share with you our first leg of the trip. We are going to fix that right now. Nice > London To travel is to live several days in one day, and for this one, …
I think of ourselves as organized people, but sometimes we are rather rough, let’s say it: we did not announce a little more in advance our departure for Iceland (via London). Tomorrow, at dawn, we will fly to London, where we will spend two days before leaving on Monday morning …
We are on the super express train for Osaka airport. Before we leave our Internet connection and climb on the plane, it is with great emotion that we leave Japan. We hope to return for other adventures in a few years. See you soon, for other messages from France.
We left Koyasan Friday morning, after prayer and breakfast. We arrived in Kyoto at 12.30am with a few small incidents in Osaka to get our suitcase: basically we had to get out of the “station” area to get it back (so, to negotiate an exit-entry with the controllers), and it …
The days are very fresh in Koyasan. Accommodations occurring only in the monasteries of the city, we eat early, we go to bed early and wake up early: prayer is at 6:30. It is sung by two priest dressed all in purple. The song is very rhythmic, but almost monotone. …
You’ve been waiting for weeks and finally here it is: the post dedicated to Japanese cuisine. Unfortunately, the Japanese cuisine has so many facets that it would be impossible to reveal them all with a single article. So today we’ll start with the breakfast. The flavors of the food, in …
I do not know if it was his the Mount Misen who has given us aches or unusual tensions in the legs. We left the beautiful island of Miyajima for Koyasan. For this trip, we took the ferry, 7 trains, the cable-car and a bus. Left around 9 am, we …
I talk back, because we had already stayed here from March to April 2014. The place marked me a lot and I longed wished to return, this time to spend a little more time in the nature. The ride from Beppu took place without incident: we sit on the train, …
Yufuin is a spa town at an hour’s train from Beppu, further back into the mountains. This is a charming and discreet onsen city. Actually, this is the only interest of the city and you must go there to bathe, which means book in a spa. What we did not. …
If overall we visited less temples on this trip than two years ago, we are still going to pay our respects to Buddha. Thus we go to the city of Usuki (pronounced Husky who knows why…) by train to stroll in the park of 60 Buddhas. They are carved into …
