Like a virgin Since 2010, together with my running buddies, we have been making yearly trips to Japan and onsens always feature prominently in our itineraries. Takaragawa Onsen was one of the first they visited. I wasn’t with them at that time but they made sure I became […]
The weather was dismal when I got off the bus at Nozawa. It was raining/snowing, I couldn’t tell which; I had enough on my hands battling strong gusts of wind that threatened to veer me off the uneven slope. While Zao had been bright, cheerful and calm, Nozawa […]
It was March 2015. Snow was on the agenda, as was skiing and ice monsters 樹氷 (Juhyo in Japanese). But for that to materialise, we needed good weather. And good weather, we were blessed with. For a while. Getting to Zao 蔵王 was straightforward. From Tokyo, we took […]
How To Sneak A ski Trip Into Your Holiday Everyone should ski at least once in their lifetime. Don’t laugh. People who live in temperate countries take it for granted but for some of us who live at the equator and are blessed with sunny days all year […]
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