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  • Homeward bound

    I really wish that Tokyo Teleport was real with access to Sydney. For a supposed aircraft lover I get awfully anxious and tired of long overnight flights. It’s always the same on the final day. Shop until you are overloaded. Catch the train to the airport. Fly off home. After reserving seats on the Narita…

  • Teleport to Venus

    Today I travelled through a Teleport. It took me out to Venus Fort. Then I went over a rainbow And returned to somewhere I know We caught a train, one drove a car But really we didn’t go very far. We’ve been looking to purchase some Japanese household items on this trip and heard about…

  • Tokyo DisneySea

    I was never a great fan of Disney as a kid, but I’m beginning to understand its attractions. Last year we visited our first Disney theme park; Tokyo Disneyland and thoroughly enjoyed it, despite the long queues for a number of major attractions. “For Alex’s sake” yesterday we tried out Disneyland’s neighbouring attraction, Tokyo DisneySea,…

  • Down the Oito Line

    Riding the length of the Oito Line from Itoigawa to Shinjuku (well, Matsumoto, really, but you might as well go the whole way) has long been a dream of mine. It suddenly gained urgency when I read that the last length of it between Itoigawa to Minami-Otari would be closed once the Hokuriku Shinkansen to…

  • Zoom-Zoom!

    What manufacturer produced a van called the Bongo and has a stadium named after their slogan “Zoom-zoom?” Mazda! Our purpose in travelling to Hiroshima was simply to visit Mazda’s car factory. Alex has a fascination with production processes and with there soon to be no large scale car manufacturing done in Australia where better to…

  • Horrors and happiness in Hiroshima

    I’ve been hoping, promising, Alex for so long that he could ride on an Anpanman train like those in his book, but again I failed. The whole morning was a bit of a stuff up. We checked out of the hotel and caught a tram to the station, but the travel agency desk where JR…

  • The point of the needle

    “The map showed me the place; it was so small a place as to appear just like the point of a needle. It must certainly be a poor miserable place. What the town was like, or what sort of people lived in it, was entirely unknown to me; yet it gave me neither trouble nor…

  • A washout!

    It is fortunate that I completed the entire length San-in railway line when I did for three days later heavy rains washed away the stretch between Nago and Susa. It would have been very annoying to have missed this small, but very scenic, length of track. A stretch of the San-in coast between Nago and…

  • A virgin beauty bids farewell

    I remember the first time laid eyes upon her. I was at Epping in northern Sydney when I heard her passing overhead. As is my wont I gazed upwards and was immediately confused. Four engines, a red tail, was that a white body as well? A Qantas 747, common in our skies? Something wasn’t right.…

  • The science of Canberra

    What do I do on holiday but go to work, of course! Just for something a little different during these Easter school holidays we decided to pop down to Canberra for an overnight stay. We drove down on Tuesday morning, stopping at pretty Berrima for a tasty lunch of meat pies at the award winning…