It has been such a relaxing fortnight with the trip away and a lighter week due to the long weekend in Melbourne.
The lead up was a bit stressful given the original plan was to go to New Caledonia for a vacation for the wife’s birthday. The riots there meant it was a chaotic last minute shuffle to Japan.
We ended up staying at the magnificent Mandarin Oriental Tokyo and given we had been to the city numerous times, took a gentler approach to the visit. Some highlights
- ate at some lovely local halal Ramen places – something I never got to do before since there WAS no halal/non-pork ramen I could find last time!
- Visited our favourite districts from prior trips – especially one called Daikanyama, a relatively small, quiet corner of the city that has a small stream running through it, surrounded by quaint little cafes and quirky stores.
- Going out of the way to find some of the locations for photos I see on Instagram and being able to capture it – It’s a bit odd right? You see some locations with hundreds of photographs of a place, but you want your own as some sort of collectible trophy 🤣
- Visited a cat cafe for the first time – all it did was make me miss my cats even more
Overall, it was one of those trips where we did enough that it didn’t feel like we had wasted the journey and done nothing different than if we were in Melbourne but it wasn’t so many different activities that we came back needing another holiday after the holiday.
I was only away for 4 days but it felt like it had been at least a week. Even the wife felt the same way. And that surely, is a sign of a good break!