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We celebrated Ifan’s 8th birthday the Friday before the big event at Tokyo Disneyland. It was an early-ish start as we had decided to drive (as a result of our train adventures with the kids, who were very tired, the day before) and were aiming to beat the Friday morning rush hour traffic across [...]

I had arranged to meet James and Leigh for a drink in Shinjuku. I think it was the boys’ tongue-in-cheek way of saying “welcome back”: invite him out for a drink but make sure he has to go through Ikebukuro and Shinjuku before he gets it.
Ikebukuro train station, the second busiest train station [...]

We had our first onsen (zero carbon foot-print, volcanically powered, super-duper, all singing, all dancing, hot spring) of the New Year yesterday. We must have been in those volcanically heated juices for well over an hour and Ifan loved every second of it. I’m told that Mika and Meu loved the experience too, but, [...]

We’re back, safe and sound, and loving it!
Driving from Narita to Miho’s sister’s house was weird. We went through Tokyo.
Past Ginza: I used to work there and met Leysh there too, when he was teaching Charlotte Church on her grand tour of the world, courtesy of Sony Corporation. Sony Corp supplies lovely cake [...]