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Continue reading →: Japan 2025- Kyoto, Imperial Palace Gardens & Kyoto Botanical GardensThank you for following along as I share more memories of our fabulous trip to Japan. I hope to complete these posts by the end of 2025. Wishing you and yours all the best in good health and happiness in 2026. Kyoto is home to both the Imperial Palace Gardens…
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Continue reading →: Japan 2025 – Hiroshima & Floating Tori GatesWe chose a Tuesday to travel via the Shinkansen (bullet train) from Kyoto to Hiroshima. It takes about 2 to 2.5 hours. We had an early start because we knew it was going to be a long day, especially if we wanted to add a visit to see the iconic…
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Continue reading →: Japan 2025, Day trips from Kyoto- Osaka & UjiOne of the reasons I chose to use Kyoto as a base is due to its central geographic location. This post describes our experience for two unplanned, spur of the moment day trips. The first to Osaka, and the second to Uji, the tea capital of Japan. (We also did…
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Continue reading →: Japan 2025, Kyoto Cooking ClassI think a wonderful way to learn about a culture is through its food, and what better way to have a great experience than to have a cooking class. (When we went to Thailand one of the highlights of that trip was a cooking class.) The class provider was Magical…
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Continue reading →: Winter Garden Planning- Reviewing this Year’s GardenI’m taking a brief break at posting about our trip to Japan to review this year’s garden. Enjoy. I hate winter. I know, I know. I shouldn’t hate a season. We need winter, we need the cycle of death and rebirth. But I can moan and groan about it. I…
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Continue reading →: Japan 2025, Kyoto- Day 1I prebooked this bus tour of Kyoto Temples & Shrines Day Tour from Kyoto for our first full day in Kyoto. Did I break the overtourism rule? Yes. My reasoning was to book this to make sure that at least we visited the four most well known sites (and the…
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Continue reading →: Japan 2025 – trip itinerary
We visited Japan for the first time in November. I’ve always wanted to visit, and we chose November because I wanted to see Japan’s fall foliage. I’m a planner, and I spent the better part of two years reading and watching everything I could about traveling to Japan and planning…
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Continue reading →: How to give and receive feedbackIt’s always nerve wracking to have someone read your writing and then tell you what’s working, and what doesn’t work. Of course, we’d all love to receive high praise and gold stars. Unfortunately, that is not the way to becoming a better writer. How to receive feedback. Tip: Ask your…
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Continue reading →: Why Table Tennis? – It’s the perfect social sportAs I may have mentioned, I’m not terribly sporty, and I have no natural flair for racquet sports of any kind. So why Table Tennis? I started playing during COVID lock down. My hubby, Kevin is a keen and enthusiastic player and the lockdown meant there was nowhere where he…
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Continue reading →: Finding a Writers Group- my personal experienceWriting is such a lonely activity. Then comes that moment when you decide to show your work to someone else, because writing has an end goal- of having someone read it. The agony of having a person read your work for the first time is like having root canal. What…
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