More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Christmas Eve, 2011, and just after 7am the sun announces its impending arrival. It's the 23rd day of my walk along the Shikoku Pilgri...

  Unkai is a Japanese word describing a late Autumn, early Winter weather phenomenon whereby valleys fill with clouds. From high points it l...

Monday, March 24th, 2014, and I take the first train out of Sasebo heading north. The sun comes up as I am approaching Hizen Nagano from whe...

  Friday, March 7th, 2014, day 65 of my walk around Kyushu and a wonderful sunrise. I spent the night at a minshuku right on the water's...

  Sunday January 5th 2014. Day 56 of my walk around  Kyushu on the Kyushu  Pilgrimage.  This will be the last day where I base myself in Ku...

It was cloudy when I woke up on the third day of my walk along the Aki Nada island chain in the Inland Sea in Hiroshima, but it was s...