Friday 20th March
Chilson to Heathrow Holiday starts today In the normal course of events Jo and I clean the kitchen on a Friday morning, but…
Saturday 21st March
Flight to Hong Kong Despite staying within walking distance of Terminal 3 we are determined not to miss the flight, so have set…
Sunday 22nd March
Hong Kong to Fukuoka The flight from Heathrow is scheduled to land at 07:40 - which it probably did, but we then spent…
Monday 23rd March
Fukuoka The Japanese seem to have adopted British 1950's primary school technology in that when we checked-in we were given 6 breakfast tickets,…
Tuesday 24th March
Fukuoka At some point Ken sent a WhatsApp message to say he has seen a Google Maps image of Nishi Park, full of…
Wednesday 25th March
Fukuoka to Kyoto Today it is raining - hard! After checking out of the Crowne Plaza we get a taxi to the station…
Thursday 26th March
Kyoto Kyoto City Tour - Full Day - Includes lunch Our guide was Michi, a delightful lady with a subtle sense of humour.
Friday 27th March
Kyoto Day trip to Nara (Return train tickets included) Earlyish breakfast where I suddenly recognised the people sitting more or less at the…
Saturday 28th March
Kyoto to Kanazawa Kanazawa Sainoniwa Hotel I set the alarm for 6:00 am this morning, knowing that missing the train to Kanazawa could…
Sunday 29th March
Kanazawa A taxi to Kenroku-en Gardens, where a nice Irish lady, who we had seen at breakfast, was standing close to us in…