Tag: Japan

Away for Thanksgiving

Rolling and rising across the country, the fourth wave of the pandemic and the wake it’s leaving behind is dampening not only our travel, but

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O-sa-KA!

O-sa-KA! O(h) we’d like to return. A realization we came to while there. Japan’s culinary capital, the country’s rebel, Osaka is an exclamation of colour,

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Ryokan Mommy

Pumpkins. Mushrooms. Persimmons. Mmmm… Late autumn ripens my memories of Japan. To the night Lynn, Ward, Magellan and I, dressed in kimonos, ate kaiseki at

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Cherry blossoms in Japan

Sakura

More than three decades ago when we lived in Calgary, Magellan and I thought we’d go to Japan in the spring for the sakura (桜),

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