After more than a year of planning, booking and anticipating, tomorrow we are heading to Japan for a month!  We fly to Tokyo for 5 nights, then head to Kawaguchiko and Matsumoto for 2 days each. From there we head back to Tokyo to hop on the Coral Geographer for a 14 day cruise visiting Shimizu, Shingu, Osaka, Shodoshima, Hiroshima & Miyajima, Matsuyama, Moji, Tsushima, Sasebo, Fukue, Goto Islands including a day on Jeju Island, South Korea.  After the cruise we will spend 2 nights in Fukuoka and 5 nights in Kyoto before heading home.

Most of those places are just names to me so far, but I am so looking forward to learning and experiencing a new country. My intention is to try to blog each day, or at least most days, so if you are keen to follow along, this is the place. If you are super-keen, bookmark this site (www.theotherpages.net) or add your email address below. (Note you will receive a confirmation email if you wish to subscribe – check your spam or junk mail folder if you don’t get it straight away.)