5 hours with tee

So now I have been to Bangkok too …. not a destination that was on my bucket list, but help was needed – so off I went. This was 5 days in the end of October this year. Did I …

one destination = 300 images: miyajima island, japan

Now we are back in Japan … in May this year. I don’t think it matters what weather Miyajima Island provides there will always be visitors. The island is only 50 min away with ferry from Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, …

worship and shopping

Kyoto has in total about 2000 shrines and temples – we didn’t visit them all, but a few …. but Kyoto is also a great city for shopping. Our  hotel was only 2 minutes walk from Teramachi and Shinkyogoku Shopping Arcades in …

four weddings and expressing gratitude

So glad that we made the decision to take the later Shinkansen to Kyoto on our last day, in Tokyo (Sunday), and followed our plans to visit the beautiful Meiji jingū (明治 神宮) shrine, first of all we had a wonderful …

ryokan, rain and shrine

Here we are on the island of Miyajima and it rains like there is no end to it. Miyajima holds Japan’s 3rd most popular tourist attraction, the Itsukushima Shrine and the O-turii Gate, that means we aren’t really the only tourists …