Hello folks! It’s reporter K again! I’m here to tell you about my travels in Australia. Actually my colleagues will be covering most of the sites so I only have one to write about: The Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef in the world. It is 1250 miles long and […]
Penguins come in a surprising range of sizes, but the very cutest is without a doubt the tiny Fairy Penguin. These little guys are the smallest of the bunch, standing only one foot tall and weighing in at just three pounds. The Fairy Penguin, or “Little Blue,” is native to the coastlines of Australia and […]
YEAH, C’MOOON DEMONS! WOOOOOOO! It was The Melbourne Demons versus the Sydney Swans! We were barracking (as the Aussies say) the DEMONS!!!! The Demons are a scrappy team, their fans are generalized as the “shout-out-mistakes-and-comments-while-glugging-beer-and-gobbling-chips” kind of people. But that’s just a few of them. Actually, pretty much everyone was shouting comments, myself included, […]
From Sydney we headed down to Melbourne – Australia’s “other” big city located at the very southern tip of the landmass. It sits at the same latitude as Capetown or Buenos Aires and looks south toward the Tasmanian island and Antarctica. Sydney has a population of 4.5 million and Melbourne is just behind at […]
Sydney was all about catching our breath after the craziness in Japan. We checked into the Shangri-La hotel, where we had the good fortune to be greeted by customer manager extraordinaire Sabina. She heard the story and promptly upgraded us into their Governor’s Suite. This is the size of our Paris apartment, raised to the 34th floor […]
On the behind the scenes tour we get to touch, hold, and feed the animals, and animals in Australia are especially strange. That is because Australia is very hot so the creatures have to adapt themselves in order to survive. We met our guide Paul at ten and said hello to the three other people. […]
THE LESSON We met our friends the Walters: Darin and Alison, and their kids: Oscar (12), Maya (10), and Hugo (5). Today, I was learning how to surf. Darin gave me a lesson on the beach. We used his surfboard on the sand instead of trying in the water. Darin told me several rules: […]
Where is Piggy touring today? Send your answey to me at katherine@365saturdays.org. Last week’s answer: Piggy was in the Haneda Airport after the 9.0 Sendai Earthquake
Before the earthquake of March 11th, we had 72 hours to savor Tokyo. During that time, we spent an afternoon learning classic Japanese home cooking with the kind and talented team of Chef Takamitsu Aihara. Chef Aihara has received a Michelin star for his beautiful cuisine and we were slightly star-struck to be in […]
As you know, Piggy was in a big earthquake and has been watching the news carefully to see what has been happening ever since. Exactly how big was it and where was the epicenter of the quake that made Piggy leave Japan? Send your guess to katherine@365saturdays.org by email
The line at Haneda Airport at 5:15am. Safety first. Although we were having a great time in Japan and managed to get through the earthquake without any injuries, we decided to move the family out of Tokyo today. We just arrived in Seoul where we plan to catch our breath and get some sleep. More […]
By 6am on Saturday, there was limited train service restored and we could come back to Tokyo city via a series of zigzag rides with six different legs (shuttle, 4 trains, taxi). Somehow we made it back to Akasaka without getting lost. We finally reached our rooms at the Intercontinental around 9am, where we discovered it […]
We had spent the past two hours quivering inside the Guest Relations building. Packed together with 100 other people, tight as sardines in a can. It was a dreary routine. Wait for endless amounts of time inside, then when the tremor alarm goes off, run outside and wait, then come back in when everything is […]
What do you think about in middle of an earthquake? Put yourself in our shoes at Disney, walking under a ten-story tall volcano, when the ground starts to sway. What you would see is Carter and me grinning like idiots – Disney has the most realistic special effects! Then the staff all run to their […]
Okay, before I start this blog I want to get to the point: WE ARE OKAY! “Bye!” Mom and I said. We were going to the mermaid section of Disney Sea Tokyo park, while Carter and Dad waited in line for Journey to the Center of the Earth. “We’ll meet you back here in 90 […]
We stepped off the flight from Vietnam and giggled with excitement: we were in Tokyo! We had only flown for four hours but it felt like we had landed in a different world. Everything was so sleek, high-tech, and almost unnaturally clean. There is simply no comparison between a public bathroom in Tokyo and anywhere […]
On Friday March 11, our family went to Disney Sea Tokyo. A detailed design for the park was developed by Disney so the company could extend its existing properties with an ocean-themed attraction, but it proved too costly to actually build in Orlando. A group of Japanese businessmen realized it could still succeed if they […]
Our wonderful Japan guide Mimi came over on Wednesday morning and we stepped out into the streets of Tokyo. Brrr. First stop, Ginza for jackets. Then we saw the Imperial Palace and Asukasa with its many tourist stands and great Buddhist temple and Shinto shrine. We were so impressed with Mimi. She was impeccably dressed, […]
One of our touring highlights in Central Vietnam was a day of traditional farming and fishing in Hoi An. Russ took a vacation from the itinerary and opted to stay home with an economics book (?!) while the kids and I took off on a special eco-tour. We drove to the outskirts of the Farming […]
From Halong Bay we hopped a short flight south to the middle of Vietnam. Here the village of Hoi An has been preserved and restored using old-style Vietnamese architecture. We stayed nearby at the exquisite Nam Hai resort that is one of the jewel properties for the year. A “villa” at the Nam Hai includes […]
Why do so many Hanoi tourists suffer a jarring three hour drive through Vietnam’s endless rice paddies, just to spend an evening on the waters of Halong Bay? We boarded an (extremely well-appointed) old-style wooden junk to find out. The boat set sail at lunch and a few hours later we were gliding past startling rock formations jutting […]
Who doesn’t love a good love story? Every country seems to have one. Here in Vietnam, one of the most poignant is widely known but officially unrecognized by the Vietnamese government: it is the true story of Ho Chi Minh and his Chinese wife and it goes something like this. Ho Chi Minh was born […]
Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam, a government center that is home to the country’s largest concentration of intellectuals and artists. Dusty construction confronts us in every direction. The city population just passed the 9 million mark and the streets are buzzing. This is the perfect place for cultural adventures. So much is foreign here […]
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