Tag: Around the world in 100 countries

#25 Temples, cities and sushi: Japan with the baby globetrotter

No matter how far you travel you can never get away from yourself.” Haruki Murakami, The Unvisited Whenever I talked to anyone who’d been to Japan I heard words like … Continue reading #25 Temples, cities and sushi: Japan with the baby globetrotter

Let’s pose the inevitable question first: is Monaco a country? It seems to have quite a confused status as, variously, an independent principality, a city-state, a constitutional monarchy, a microstate, … Continue reading #23 Monaco: A day in the fairytale land of the rich and famous

“The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything! As far as the eye … Continue reading #22 Romania with the baby globetrotter: Transylvanian tales

“The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and … Continue reading #21 Postcard from Sofia: Bulgaria with the baby globetrotter