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A Scilly Little Blog
Just about five years ago one of our UK friends suggested that we all plan a trip to The Isles of Scilly sometime in the future. Jim never forgot this suggestion and kept bringing it up until one year ago we started planning the trip. Our good friends Judith, Anthony, Paul and Siggy had all…
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Geisha Experience in Kyoto
We will start out by explaining a little about what a geisha is. This is mostly from Japancheapo.com. Known asย geikoย in Kyoto,ย geishaย are high-class, greatly respected entertainers, who have trained for years in traditional instruments and dance, parlor games and conversation, flower arranging and more. They attend dinners and gatherings atย ryลteiย (exclusive traditional restaurants) andย ochayaย (teahouses) and entertain guests…
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Kyoto with Andrew and Dick
Our stalkers have been with us for twelve days in Tokyo and now they want to follow us to Kyoto, there is just no getting rid of these two. We are booked on the Mizuno Shinkansen which is the fastest of the three different bullet trains. We booked a taxi to pick us up and…
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A Day Trip to Hiroshima
As we have written before, we do very little prior planning for our travels and Japan was no exception. We tend to land in a city, move into our new home and then start exploring and researching things to do and see. We moved to Kyoto with no agenda and have just been exploring. We…
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Last Days in Tokyo
We are living right in the middle of the Korean district of Tokyo called Okubo or Shin-Okubo and with that comes hordes of very young Asians from all over who are into K-pop and everything Korean. Our narrow sidewalks on the Main Street are very difficult to navigate as the kids queue for all of…
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Another Day with Will & Ruby in Tokyo
We enjoyed our initial meet up and whole day together with Ruby and Will so much that we all proposed another day together. Ruby suggested that they meet up with us in Tokyo this time. She and Will then came up with a great itinerary for the day. Meet at Odaiba and tour this popular…
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A Day Trip to Nara
So that wraps up our day trip to Nara. We have at least three more Japan blogs to finish before our time is over here on April 28 but thought we would just pop this one day short blog out.
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Tokyo with Dick and Andrew
When Dick and Andrew come to visit, Dick is usually full of ideas of things that he wants to see and do but, like us, he came to Japan with so much apprehension that he did no preplanning and is totally relying on us for all touring and exploring.
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The Stalkers Find us and A Day With Will and Ruby
Our stalkers, aka Dick and Andrew have consistently found us at every major stay over the past six plus years with the exception of Melbourne Australia and San Miguel de Allende Mexico. Dick has always wanted to visit Japan but he is coming here with a lot of trepidation as it seems to be way…
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Ueno Park Hanami and Ai’s Birthday Party in Tokyo
We are so thankful to be in Japan for the cherry blossom season which we planned of course and we want to fully enjoy the beauty. The Japanese people love their cherry blossoms and they have a custom of having picnics under the cherry blossoms which they call a hanami. They bring large mats, tables…
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Tokyo, First Ten Days
Tokyo Japan is a little bit out of our comfort zone as everything is written in a foreign script and neither of us knows more than two or three words of Japanese. It is also the most populous city in the world and can be intimidatingly crowded. In addition it has been closed to foreign…
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Dana and Jared in New Orleans
Sandy and her friend Marjory Kaplan joined Boston Fit Running Club in 2010. Sandy was training for her fifth marathon in Athens Greece and Marjory was training for her first half marathon in Newport Rhode Island. It was at Boston Fit that Sandy met Dana Weigel and Susan Myers and later Gayle Oulighan. After doing…
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Rebecca and Adam in New Orleans for Mardi Gras
Rebecca Yang and Adam Caper have visited us before in Paris, Rome, San Miguel de Allende and now in New Orleans. They usually visit over Thanksgiving as that is around Adam’s birthday but this time they grabbed the primo Mardi Gras week. Sandy and Rebecca were colleagues at Lahey Clinic where they forged a bond…
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Tokyo, Day #1
We started our trip here by waking up at 4am in Boston planning on flying to Toronto and then on to Tokyo. Instead our flight out of Boston was delayed by four hours due to Air Canada computer problems. The best solution they came up with was flying us to Toronto where we stayed overnight…
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Susanna in New Orleans
Susanna Lee was a Radiologist whom Jim first met in the early 80’s when they both worked at New England Memorial Hospital in Stoneham Massachusetts. When the hospital went bankrupt and closed in February of 1999 they both ended up at Lahey Clinic. Susanna was always the first person to arrive at our Christmas Open…