Tokyo Fox (東京狐)

Needing some original Sunday morning dog walking ideas, my wife and I decided to walk round the famous green train line which passes through most of Tokyo’s urban centres in a loop. I should point ou...

It has been said that the most memorable World Cup for many football fans is the one they experience around the age of 11 (give or take a year or two!) so for me that fell between Mexico ’86 and Italia ’90. Both of those tournaments hold special memories for me and it really did feel special to have some matches taking place in Mexico this time.

During all my time in Japan I’ve managed to see the majority of the top test-playing international rugby teams at some point but there have been a couple of notable absentees for a while.

Late night or early morning flights in my experience tend be just after midnight or at about 6:00 am. On this occasion though my flight from Amman (Jordan) to Istanbul in Turkey was right in the middle of that time zone.

The 3:15 am flight might have saved me on ...

12 months on from our last trip to Hiroshima and we were back but this time things were a bit different and not in a good way.

At the start of the year beloved family dog Cocoa sadly passed away and his absence was felt immediately on arrival at my parents-in-law...