My plan was to head for Maehama beach today, and again despite it being 6.6 miles from my hotel, I decided to walk! I knew the forecast had some rain in it today but given it is always warm I was not that bothered. Still, the windbreaker came with me and off I set. About an hour into

I was up and out at 5a.m and got the airport very early.  Was pretty shattered after my two hours sleep in the grot hole the previous night. I was pretty excited about my 7 days in one place and was praying for nice weather.  I knew there was a Typhoon brewing and there was a threat t

My alarm went off at 4am and I was surprisingly awake so I bounced out of bed and got my last few things together before I set off. I was sensible this time because I had my big rucksack, so I got the subway which was about 3m from my hotel, first time I had used it. I managed to find

It is Sunday so I allowed myself a lie in and only got out of the room at 11a.m.  I wanted to not be knackered at 8pm like every other day because The Arsenal were on at 9:30pm here. First thing I did was make a pit stop in Starbucks and then headed to Osaka castle. I did not spend as

I had only been in Osaka a few hours and I was getting good vibes about it. A lot of people say they prefer it to Tokyo, time will tell for me but first I impressions were good. My first day here however was to be spent elsewhere, a day trip to Nara. A lot of people would have seen Na

My alarm was set for 5:30a.m because I wanted to catch the setting up of the morning market. When I woke up, I realised this idea was just madness from the wave of Takayama excitement I had yesterday and in fact I just needed to see the market and not it’s setting up. So I snoozed my

Now I was settled into my Nagoya hotel it was time to have two day trips to the ancient old capital Kyoto, which had been voted the best city in the world this year. It has a stupid amount of UNESCO World Heritage sites and I had given myself quite a lot to cover in a short space of t

I forgot to mention yesterday that I’d been exchanging emails with a hiring manager (prospective client) while in Russian airspace and I’m going to be interviewing at 10:30pm from Osaka, so if I get that gig that will be a unique recruitment process I have to say! My last

For some reason, the day I left for Heathrow I had an attack of nerves about the trip.  I think it was probably a mixture of not having much time to pack and the realisation that the maps I’d been screen-shooting would mean nothing out there because I cannot read the street sign

On 24th July 2014, I received the results of my MRI scan for my left knee.   Given this was six years on from rupturing my cruciate ligament in my right knee, I was adamant it was the same injury and I vowed never to go through that ever again! Unfortunately, it was even worse than I