Friends of ours (Charlie and Wynette) now on their 13th or 14th year of walking the Caminos in Spain and Portugal, were offered umeshu at a Spanish bar the other day. (Kanpai you two). I’ve recently developed a taste for umeshu here in Japan so I thought I’d say more about it. Umeshu has been…
Day: April 20, 2025
Sticking with the white stripe
In most of the countries we’ve traveled to on Easter, places have been closed. Here in Japan that certainly wasn’t going to be a concern. But in keeping with a spirit of religious observance we elected to make a morning visit to the Eikan-dō Temple. An early local bus took us to the foothills of Higashiyama, Kyoto’s eastern…