by Terry Thorpe | Feb 25, 2024 | Blog, Terry
After a nice breakfast at the hotel we met Seizo who would be our guide to Tokyo for the first half of the day. Seizo took us to the imperial Palace while telling us about the role of the emperor and his wife and Japanese culture. Next stop was the Meiji shrine where... 
by Terry Thorpe | Feb 24, 2024 | Blog, Terry
The flight to Tokyo went better than expected, a couple of movies, a few drinks and a beauty treatment or two later and we were finally in the land of the rising Sun. Jet lagged, but happy and excited to see what Japan held in store. We travelled in style to our... 
by Terry Thorpe | Dec 31, 2023 | Blog, Terry
Thorskog castle in Sweden was our destination for ‘ringing in the bells’, full credit to my better half for finding this place. What a gem. We had an incredible 3 days in a wonderful Swedish castle chugging champagne and trying not to bump into suits of... 
by Terry Thorpe | Dec 17, 2023 | Blog, Terry
A very exciting day today, we’re heading North… all the way to the Demilitarised Zone.The no mans land between two worlds, that of South and North Korea. We got to our tour bus nice and early and met our lovely, informative guide. After a quick passport... by Terry Thorpe | Dec 14, 2023 | Blog, Terry
We were rudely awakened at 8am by the sound of construction outside our window… Actually technically we’d been up half the night already with Katrine’s bad throat… still, undisduaded, and after a quick rant at reception we were off exploring Seoul....