Is it a city, is it a country or is it just an island with a history fraught with power […]
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Japan 411
Japan is a tiny country with a lot of history. When I started to do our fake itinerary months ago […]
A View to a Kill
New Years Day 2016 and we decided to hike up to The Peak as its called, overlooking HK. The […]
Hong Kong Phoey
I had visited Hong Kong during the nineties with my friend and stayed in Kowloon traveling to the Island […]
Radioactive Shanghai nights or just a barge in the dark
20 years ago I had the opportunity to move from Cape Town to continue working for my American company […]
And then there was three
Four months, twenty nine days and a few hours and she was finally running through the gates of Nippori station, […]
The Buddhist Monk who loved gold
The hordes of visitors lining up outside gave us some clue that we would be visiting a wonderful sight and […]
Stepping out around the world
From skyscrapers to a water village
Less than a thirty minute ride on the bullet train from Shanghai followed by a short bus ride from […]
What is in a name??
This is Japanese efficiency at its best. Let’s not waste letters coming up with a new name for our new […]
into the strange 