In the October holidays we went to Japan - what an amazing experience!
Travelling around a foreign country on public transport with four kids is not necessarily a chilled out and relaxing holiday, but we loved it. Japan is also NOT the place to go if you are thinking to unplug your kids (I am always looking for opportunities to remove them from devices) - everyone there seems to be constantly on their phone.
We were there for 12 days and then stayed one night in Hong Kong on the way home, but it felt to me like we were away for much longer and I think that is because we were travelling around so much.
I haven't got all our photos organised at all, so there will be a few instalments on Japan. These first ones are some that came off my phone.
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| Leaving Sydney Airport |
In Tokyo - we couldn't get into our hotel immediately so we dropped off our luggage and went for a walk. We discovered a beautiful park nearby where we were able to lie around in our exhausted state until we could check-in!
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| Brooms and other street cleaning equipment left conveniently, ready for use. |
Some interesting toadstools.
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| The view from our hotel room - you can see the park that we wandered about in. |
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| Hachiko the dog |
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| I started to teach the girls string games on the bullet train. |
In Hiroshima
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| A decent photo of Robin and myself |
The Japanese love Halloween decorations (they were everywhere) and our hotel lobby in Hiroshima was no different. Notice Natalie edged over to one side of the seat - she was a bit wary of the big spider!
On Miyajima Island where they have very friendly deer. We stayed in a "traditional" hotel, complete with traditional dinner and breakfast.
The streets of Kyoto.
In Osaka we found the Pokemon centre - more fun than expected.
