Planting around temples

Our last day in Japan. We had decided to follow a recommendation and go and see the big Buddha at…

Marching for (and around) Europe

On the day this goes out, I am expecting Theresa May to ‘trigger Article 50’. I’m not quite sure how she…

After breakfast I went over to the congress centre and collected my bag and programme and then walked from there…

The Thunderbird from Kyoto to Osaka we had only taken 25 minutes and seemed to get there before we had…

In January this year I attended the annual Plenary meeting of the International Parachuting Commission which was held in Faro…

The last day of ‘holiday’ –we have reserved seats on the Shinkansen to Yokohama train so must leave the hotel…

From the museum we went back to the park for some lunch and then took the underground from a different…

Then we set out for the Nakanoshima Park and had a bit of a walk from the station we got…

It dawned bright and sunny as the forecast had been on the TV in the restaurant yesterday evening. So after…

We arrived at the station 2 minutes before a train for Osaka was leaving so we jumped in. Before we…