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  • Market-ing in Chiang Mai

    After all of the previous day’s excitement we needed something more relaxing. So today we did very little. Woke up late, ate breakfast, let Alex play with the hotel staff, who seem to love him. He’s been very good at charming the locals with an easy “Hi!” and his excited descriptions of things like “fountains!”…

  • Elephants, oxen, tigers and Donald Duck

    Alex cried out in agony,as if he were burning. Nothing we gave him could ease his pain. No, he hadn’t been thrown unrestrained through the car window on a busy Thai road. Nor was this a consequence of falling down a ledge on to concrete. He hadn’t been trampled by an elephant, or slipped off…

  • Wat’s boutique?

    What’s a boutique airline? One with art works hung all around the cabin? Trendy service? Small numbers of passengers? Whatever the answer, we were about to find out. We woke to the sound of rain. It was dark, except for flashes of lightning. I assumed that it must be very early, as Thailand is four…

  • En-thai-rely Satisfied: Sydney to Bangkok

    I’m an idiot. No, don’t even pretend to disagree with me. It is true, I am an idiot. When we finally made it out of the house and on to the bus, then train, I was looking forward to a classic airport experience. The kind of experience you get when you are flying from the…

  • Music in Melbourne

    On a lighter note, last Sunday I flew down to Melbourne for the day to listen to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra perform the music of John Williams in their Star Wars and Beyond concert at the Town Hall. It’s crazy, I know, but to me Star Wars and Melbourne are inextricably linked. I have watched…

  • Rattled by rads, it’s Thai-m to go elsewhere

    When Jetstar finally announced that they would permit Japan flights to be rebooked or cancelled without penalty I felt terribly depressed. All that hard work planning and researching for nothing. Nothing suggests that the southern areas of Japan are being affected by elevated radiation levels and most experts say there is little threat. Still, with…

  • What now for Japan?

    The question that everyone asks me right now is “so, are you still going to Japan?” The answer is increasingly that of “I don’t know.” I have been keeping a very close eye on the nuclear powerplant situation. Should there be the possibility of radioactive fallout fall in Kyoto and further south then we will…

  • Earthquake off Japan

    As soon as we arrived home today we saw ABC television transmitting a live stream of news from Japan on the huge earthquake off the northern coast. The names of towns and provinces in Tohoku that they mentioned were all too familiar as they were part of our plans for the first half of our…

  • Oito Line

    I was looking through some photos of our 2006 trip to Japan and noticed some lovely pics taken along the Oito line between Shinjuku and Matsumoto. This was the first time we saw Mt Fuji. The line actually runs all the way to the west coast town of Itoigawa. Very tempting. My photos are here.…

  • Paper phantoms

    We picked up our 14 day Japan Rail Pass vouchers from Pitt Travel this evening. I also grabbed a copy of the free JNTO Tourist Map of Japan, a treasured reference when it comes to planning trips. The map shows major railway lines, roads, onsens and other sites across the islands. While gazing at Hokkaido,…