FROZEN DREAMS IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN
Thereʼs a narrow three-month window for hiking Mount Fuji, Japanʼs 3 776m-high extinct volcano, and my wife Catherine and I had timed our trip perfectly. We were determined to reach the summit.
Weʼd had mere hours in Tokyo before boarding our bullet train but that time had opened our eyes to the fact that we were now in a place so different from anything weʼd seen before.
Everything was just so… foreign. From orderly queues for the trains, to the green tea-flavoured Haagen Dazs. And, in one corner cafe – right next to the veggies –
