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Returned home
The holiday is over and we are at home in Sydney. In some ways it is good to be back in comfortable and familiar surroundings, a place where we can relax. However, there is much that I will miss about overseas and it won’t be fun to return to the familiar problems. Anyway, I’m too…
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Leaving Japan Tomorrow
I am so very depressed. We are leaving Japan tomorrow. I don’t want to go. I’m not yet ready for our holiday to end. There is still so much to see and do. Whether due to jet lag or someother reason, I had trouble sleeping last night. I decided that things need to change when…
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Shinjuku
Our second night in Tokyo and I am dreading our return to Australia. We haven’t left Shinjuku since arriving here from the airport about the Narita Express. After staying mostly in basic 2 star hotels I hoped that we were in for a bit of luxury in Tokyo. We don’t generally need or use the…
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En route to Japan
Not at all impressed by British Airways or Flight Centre. Firstly we were bumped to the morning flight to Tokyo and told that it was the only one. Nope, the previous flight is still there and would have lets us get up at a reasonable time. The fact that we were transferred without even asking…
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Shopping in Paris
We spent our last full day in Paris shopping. Finding that the shops around St Severin, near our area, weren’t open until 11:30, we took the metro to Boulevarde Haussmann, the location of the grand department stores Galaries Lafayette and Printemps. We entered the latter store and spent about an hour and a half there,…
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Wandering through Paris
I love Paris. It’s a city that celebrates learning, thinking,subversive ideas and the enjoyment of life. So unlike Sydney. We began this very sunny Sunday with a walk through the Sorbonne, France’s premier university, up to the Pantheon, the resting place of famous French men and women, including Victor Hugo and Madame Curie. Unfortunately, the…
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