I’ve always been meaning to start a blog for many years now. Partly since reading Imgladitsmeandnotyou amongst others, but largely to give credit to the some of the amazing places I’ve eaten in or visited. The challenge has always been time, with time pressures of work and splash of plain laziness.

Well after nearly 9 years of full on corporate life, I’ve decided to take a bit of a break (3 months) before it’s too late to do so.

Since planning my round the world trip in 2004, Japan always been somewhere I’ve always wanted to experience.

Unfortunately it was not feasible to do so due to time and money at that time.  Since then I’ve never thought a 2 week holiday would allow me to experience the all things I would like to do. In that time the desire has only ever increased.

So when one of my good friends, Ben told me that he was being seconded to Tokyo for work on my last birthday it was the perfect opportunity to plan some sort of trip to go and put closure to that desire to explore Japan.

So on this trip I plan to do a few things:

Travel and experience the amazing history and culture that has always fascinated me;

 

eat my way through the true Japan;

 

and snowboard the legendary powder covered mountains I’ve heard so much about.

Keep checking in or  subscribe if you want to follow me on my cultural and culinary adventure in Japan and beyond, but you’ll have to bear with me while I get used to this blogging lark.