Category Archives: 2018-06/07, Asia

Sunday, 15 June 2018 Adam: Our final full day of this Asia trip is back in Hong Kong. We’re staying in Discovery Bay on Lantau Island – a small, isolated expat community a ferry ride out from the center of … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 10 July 2018 Adam: Today we visited the Tsujiki Fish market (pronounced skee-jee). It is the largest wholesale fish and seafoodmarket in the world. Some 60,000+ workers are employed plying 700,000 metric tons of seafood annually – 400+ different … Continue reading →

Friday, 06 July 2018 Today sucked.  We left our little house in Kamakura and drove 30 miles to Tokyo.  The plan was to return the rental car at Tokyo Station (one of the main train depots), take the subway to … Continue reading →

Wednesday, 04 July 2018 Today was short travel day, driving from Hakone to Kamakura. It’s a slow, 50km drive along the ocean. They call the highway “1” and it travels much like US1 in California. Loaded up for another trip … Continue reading →

Monday, 02 July 2018 Monday was a travel day – we packed up our stuff and left Takayama and headed south (and then east) to Hakone. About 320km (200 mile) drive. Highlights were figuring out how to get gas (it’s … Continue reading →

Friday, 29 June 2018 Adam:  We rented a car in Kyoto (Toyota Isis) and checked out of our house. All loaded up, we headed for the Gifu Prefecture and what is known as, in the tourist guides, “the Japanese Alps.” … Continue reading →

Monday, 25 June 2018 Today was a travel day from Seoul to Kyoto:  flight to Osaka, couple of trains to Kyoto, which is actually a lot closer to Osaka than I remembered.  We were here almost exactly three years ago. … Continue reading →

Friday, 22 June 2018 Today we took a guided tour to the DMZ – the De-militarized zone that separates North from South Korea. The zone was set up as part of the armistice of the Korean war in 1953. It … Continue reading →

Saturday, 16 June 2018 The boat ride today was much better than it was last Wednesday.  The seas were calmer, or perhaps the boat was heavier because it had a full load of people … for whatever reason, nobody got … Continue reading →

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 I have been dreading today for more than a week.  We’re leaving Hong Kong and taking a boat over to Macau.  I am terrified of vomiting and boats trigger my anxiety attacks because of the high … Continue reading →

Monday, 11 June 2018 We finally found a breakfast place!  This restaurant was not prepared for non-Cantonese speaking foreigners …. they had to scrounge around for an employee who spoke enough English to take our order, and even then we … Continue reading →

Saturday, 09 June 2018 The typhoon seems to have passed and the weather today was fantastic.  We decided to go ahead with our plan to visit the Big Buddha (officially Tian Tan Buddha — Tian Tan means “Alter of Heaven”) … Continue reading →

Wednesday, 06 June 2018 Hong Kong is a weird combination of opulent and seedy.  Adam and I were last here exactly eleven years ago, in June 2007, for a business trip.  We stayed in a massive and luxurious Holiday Inn. … Continue reading →