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Risa’s parents came to visit us here in London, and rather than spend a week-and-a-bit stuck in the city, we hired a little car and had a very…
We had a lightning visit to Grenoble during our trip to Lyon over the Bastille Day long weekend. The high-speed trains were amazingly smooth, especially after coming from…
After the bikes of the Tour de France had passed by, and we’d walked back down to our car, we went to check out the eccentric work of…
With great fortune, our visit to Lyon coincided with the Tour de France passing by. The Tour is one of the few sporting events that I follow with interest,…
This was, believe it or not, my first visit to France – unless you count an ill-prepared hike with our snowboarding gear from Pas de la Casa across…
There is no shortage of weekend music festivals during the brief summer months in the U.K. This festival was unknown to me, but with the secluded wooded ‘abandoned…
Fuji Rock Festival (FRF) is one of Asia’s largest music festivals, attracting well over 100,000 spectators and dozens of international and local performers. It’s located at the Naeba…
At 3776 metres above sea level, Mount Fuji is not only the highest mountain in Japan, it’s also one of the most iconic in the world. The official…
Due to the miscalculations I’d made with the timing of the Ferry from Sicily, we’d be left with only one-and-a-half days in Malta. It’s a tiny country, but…
We arrived from Sicily to the port in Valetta around 9:30PM. As we left the port, we ran the usual gauntlet of taxi drivers offering their services. I’d…