On our recent trip to Argentina, we rented a car to help us get around Mendoza and the Uco Valley, which is about an hour and a half from the city. Our goal was to visit a bunch of wineries and while we would rather have had a driver, we…
If you’re interested in visiting any Argentinian wineries in Mendoza and the Uco Valley, you may have read about the awesome, hours long, multi-course lunches with free flowing wine and gourmet food. When we were there we treated ourselves to two long lunches in the Uco Valley – one down-home…
I posted a while back about that time I climbed Mount Fuji and just now came across an original post from my old blog years ago, right after I’d done it. It’s interesting to see how the rose colored glasses changed things over time. Here’s the original: Mount Fuji Originally…
On a recent trip to San Francisco, we took a day trip to Napa. Our friends arranged for a driver to bring us to and from so no one had to worry about being the designated driver. It also made us feel very fancy. We didn’t go to a ton…
A few weeks ago I showed you my apartment in Iizuka, where I worked as an English ALT with the JET Programme. But before I moved to Iizuka, I actually lived in another even smaller town in Japan called Chikuzen-machi and worked as an English teacher with a different company,…
In case you were wondering what housing in Japan looks like, here’s a glimpse into where I lived in Iizuka, a city in the Fukuoka prefecture, on Kyushu, the southern island. It’s called a jutaku, and it’s an apartment block that is dedicated to housing teachers and usually has a…
When my sister and I were in Fez, we met a cool British couple, James and Josephine. Josephine had been wanting to go to the spa so we went with her. It was an all women’s establishment so James was the odd man out. Little did we know that the…
When I was a kid we had a ton of books. There was one story that I especially loved called Mischief in Fez, which was full of djinns, and animals that could talk and shape shift, and of course, lots of mischief and guess where it was?? I didn’t even…
I was just re-telling this story about Cathay Pacific to my friends yesterday and thought it would be a funny thing to share on my blog. Back when I was living in Japan we took advantage of our proximity to the rest of Asia to do as much traveling as…
I’ve been reading a lot in the news lately about Mount Everest and it got me thinking about the time that I climbed Mount Fuji. I’m not sure about Everest, but when you set out to climb Fuji… Continue reading
