Mark from Cailo Chocolate arranged to meet up with me at Babylon Café in Leederville in Perth. It wasn’t immediately clear whether this was a coffee shop or a succulent garden … “It’s both, everything is amazing here but don’t order the hot chocolate” I [...]
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Last week, I conducted a little experiment. I spent some time on the websites of the 32 active bean to bar chocolate makers in Australia (as per the list on bean bar you). Apart from going on a chocolate shopping spree, I was interested in two [...]
Note: This, and many of my recent posts, are from trips I took pre COVID. Go online, search for Ainokura village and look through the pictures. This village is so beautiful it is hard to believe that such a place actually exists. Not only does [...]
There is place in Tokyo called Amazake Alley, a stretch of road from the exit of Ningyocho Station up to the Meiji Theatre. It was named after a shop that used to sell sweet sake here during the Meiji period (1868-1912). Over the years, this [...]
Takayama is famous for many things. One of those is its festivals. The Takayama Festival is considered to be one of the most beautiful festivals in all of Japan. During this time, elaborately decorated hundreds of years old floats are paraded around town. During the [...]
There are many reasons to visit Takayama but one is the morning markets held daily, one of the biggest in Japan. There are two parts to this market. The first is the 300 year old Jinya-may market open to farmers looking to sell their goods. [...]
On our last trip to Japan (just before the pandemic), we rented a car and went driving through the countryside around the mountains in Gifu Prefecture. One of our stops (and there were many stunning stops) was Takayama. I highly recommend spending a few days [...]