Went to Exmoor National Park as the first trip post-pandemic. It felt nice to be so far away from daily life. Valley of the Rocks was my favourite walk of all the walks we did.
Scafell Pike
The last mountain I’d hike before the pandemic, and in winter no less.
Leaves of Eltham
Kobe
I didn’t see any of the standard tourist sites in Kobe except for Chinatown; I was here for a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house that was closed for renovation when I was last in Japan, just outside of the city. I had a marvellous time: the aforementioned house which was beautiful and nearly empty of visitors, charming carpentry tool museum, secondhand bookshop, artist studios under train arches, a whole room to myself in a converted old doctor’s clinic, local shotengai looking for tsukemono, onsen day at a 70s hotel over in Arima, lots of cable cars.
All we have is now
