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Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Japan 2.0: Dear Japan…

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Dear Japan
I think I really like you as a friend, but I am no longer in love.
It’s not you, it’s me. The love of the new, the unknown, the for­bid­den is gone.
It is not the great pub­lic trans­port, the very friendly and cour­teous people. The wall-to-wall shop­ping.
I am sure we can still be friends.
My third […]

Japan 2.0: Typhoons + Earthquakes = Shopping

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Pic­ture: Dis­tant view of Typhoon clouds from Hotel Room
Typhoon num­ber 4 (offi­cial name) hit Okinawa, and skimmed the east­ern shores of Japan. Com­pletely miss­ing Tokyo, but stop­ping many ser­vices for a few minutes on Sunday. We were out in the worst of it in Harajuku on Sat­urday. Wind+Rain = Shop­ping in Japan. Every­one was out and about.

Then […]

Holiday, not too far away

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Ahh, Japan. How I look for­ward to thee.

Hodge Japan Holiday v2.0

Friday, April 13th, 2007

After the suc­cess of our hol­i­day to Japan in 2005, and after the accu­mu­la­tion of lots of Qantas Fre­quent Flyer points, its time to return to Japan. Work hol­i­day, flights, hotels, Shinkansen, JR, Cat sit­ters, Pass­ports. It’s all hap­pen­ing in July.
This time around, we are adding Kyoto, Hiroshima and Osaka into our Japan exper­i­ence.
I hope to […]

Lost in Translation 2

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

It’s offi­cial. What do you do when you have a spare 100,000 Qantas Freaky Flier points, a hol­i­day win­dow in May and a love for Lost in Trans­la­tion? That’s right. This year the Hodge fam­ily is off to Tokyo for a week. Look out, Aki­habara and Yodo­bashi Camera!