With apologies for the corny title, I'm talking illness today because my household is currently suffering through our worst winter plague since ... well ever, probably, since we now have a small boy who is very generous about spreading germs around left, right and centre. Since all I can think about …
Japan
Suinin’s burial mound: Taking pictures while walking
The inspiration for this post is a website whose owner dropped by the Not A Ballerina Facebook page recently - and just to prove there is a website for everything these days, the site in question is called Taking Pictures While Walking and Running. Hearing about this site reminded me of a collection …
Passport pirouette: Getting back into Japan
A lot of the finer points of travel escape your memory when you're looking back on the great times you had, and it wasn't until I was browsing my passport again that I remembered how complicated it was when I wanted to take an overseas holiday away from Japan, during the two years I lived …