Monthly Archives: May 2012

Food nation – uncovering Japan’s meibutsu

Guest blog by James Mundy, Marketing Manager at InsideJapan Tours Everywhere you go in Japan, there is one thing that you will notice – food.  Everyone’s heard of sushi, but that’s just the tip of a delicious iceberg. Japan has the most top-rated Michelin-starred restaurants in the world, but good food is actually everywhere, and

Walking in the shadow of The Shard

On Sunday 13 May, Steph and I found ourselves doing a marathon. Not the annual London run, although we were in London, but an Olympic Games-themed Trekathon, which saw us zigzagging across the city on foot.   The London Stadia Trekathon is the creation of our client Discover Adventure, a specialist organiser of trekking and cycling

Klout: we don’t care what our score is

Klout, that most renowned metric of social media influence, continues to inspire as much criticism as it does worship. For all that some treat it as gospel, there are ever more naysayers in the digital room. A recent blog by Travelblather on the subject, spurring a spree of comments, followed a worrying feature by Seth Stevenson on Wired.  He examined