Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
The conference I’m attending this week is hosted in Kisarazu, a city that is 40km from Tokyo Station, line-of-sight-wise. Getting to Kisarazu Station – the hotel I’m staying at is opposite the station – would be relatively easy if one
I stayed in two hotels during this Tokyo-Kisarazu trip. The first was in Tokyo for two nights, at the APA Hotel Ginza Kyobashi Minami, located at Tarakacho Station. This has been the third APA hotel I’ve stayed in, and it’s
For this post, I’ll just get straight to the summary first: this day tour was a wasted trip. Because of persistent rain the entire day, Mt. Fuji never showed up at every spot we went to. Still, I guess I
I last visited Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden during our family vacation in Tokyo in Dec 2019, and I loved the park. With several hours to kill before I could check in, from Ginza I hopped on the Marunouchi Line and
Every year in September, I’ll have a work trip surrounding an EdTech conference. Last year’s event took place in Toyota City, and at a time of the year when it is normally warm and humid. I was expecting the same
And we’ve signed off on our China 2026 itinerary! Or at least, we’d still be able to make minor tweaks and adjustments as long as they don’t incur significant cost changes. Our flights were booked a month ago, and we’ll
I thought – for journaling’s sake – it’d be fun to do a comparison between this upcoming Guangxi–Guizhou–Chongqing trip and last year’s Yunnan–Western Sichuan trip. Again, because I like data and peering at spreadsheets! 😅 Scenery: This is where I
Regular readers of our blog will probably notice that whenever a new post has a destination clearly stated in its title, it usually means we’ve finally decided where our next holiday will be! So yes indeed, over the weekend we
Shortly after I concluded the series of posts covering our June 2026 Jeju trip, I revisited our plans for the year-end vacation. The on-off, is-it-or-isn’t-it war, open-or-closed Strait of Hormuz, and volatile airfares aside, we had some major changes to
The last post in our Jeju series – for real this time, and because I remembered to do a food post!
This has been our second trip to Jeju, and also to South Korea in as many years – and I find myself really liking the country after just three trips over 20 years. The scenery in Jeju is varied within
There are a number of accommodation options situated in central Jeju, so we were spoiled for choice! The central area is on the northern side of the island and generally where the airport is, so as long as you’re staying
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