A good few years ago now I was recommended Haruki Murakami’s book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and it was genuinely pivotal in my persisting with running and, ultimately, starting to run marathons. In that book he talks about running laps of the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo, and whenever I’m here I try and make the effort to go and run that route.
Last week we went down to the coast of the Izu peninsula.
Mount Fuji from the Nagoya to Tokyo Shinkansen.
My favourite photo from the Japan trip so far. Walked past an open luxury taxi garage that was catching some perfect light.
Walked The Philosopher’s Path in Kyoto yesterday expecting it to be absolutely heaving with tourists (like everywhere else in Kyoto) and was delighted to find it almost completely quiet.
Coming to the end of a beautiful few days in Kyoto.
The first time I toured Europe was before widely available internet on phones and certainly before google maps. We printed out AA Route finder instructions for how to get places…
Went to the coast of Izu Peninsula yesterday, to a weird little seaside town that had an aqua park, a view of Mount Fuji and almost nothing else, but had a really lovely day taking things extremely slowly.
We’ve taken a few days out from the cities to go down to the Izu Peninsula. We’re staying in Shuzenji which is a small town with a couple of small…
