Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Very close to the Hakata Machiya Folk Museum is Kushida Shrine. And again, I got lucky as there was a newly married couple at the Shrine who’d apparently just finished their rites, and were having their pictures taken. The tour
Next stop was Tōchō-ji (temple), which boasts a 10.8m tall statue of Buddha, and a walking path beneath the statue that depicts the various parts of the afterlife according to the religion. Photos couldn’t be taken in the interior, so
Truth to tell, I was a little apprehensive of the walking tour scheduled for Day 02 mid-morning onward – and specifically because the first day weather was so humid I wasn’t looking forward to another day perspiring buckets in the
The city of Fukuoka is easily walkable, and I certainly did a good deal of it on the first day of the trip. By the time my legs had pretty much given up any more walking at about 6:30PM last
The other garden that also receives some praise online is Rakusuien Garden. The place is about a ten minute walk from Hakata Station. But as luck would have it, my place of stay – The Royal Park Fukuoka Hotel –
A third place of interest is the old Fukuoka Castle Ruins. The start point of the park that the ruins is located in – Maizuru Park – is about 6 minutes away from Ohori Park and an easy walk, but
Ohori Park is decent, but the real gem is the Japanese Garden tucked in the south-eastern corner of the park. Most visitors to the park itself won’t visit this quiet spot, and possibly also on account too that there’s a
The outbound flight from Singapore to Fukuoka Airport was uneventful, and almost totally free from any kind of turbulence even. Oddly though, the inflight breakfast was pretty awful and bland: or maybe I should have opted for the Japanese menu
Besides the 35mm primes, there’s another focal length that I really like for casual photography – and it’s 28mm. I didn’t own a 28mm prime during my Nikon DSLR days, but I had one such during over the 7 years
I haven’t been putting much attention on smartphone gimbals, despite having one in the drawer – a Zhiyun Smooth-Q 3 axis controller – for several years now. These three axis gimbals offer a degree of stabilisation that smartphones and the
A week to go before my 11 day trip to the southern half of the first two of Japan trips this year, and I’m finally about done tweaking my leisure itinerary that wraps around the work segment of the trip.
We’ve been averaging around two staycations a year in the last few years now, and we’ll be doing four this year even. Invariably, they have been short stays for the two of us as a getaway from our kids. But
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