Four days, a wide angle, a zoom lens and loads of adventures finds me with 5GB of photos and loads of laundry to get through! Excited about the first, not so much about the second.

Nikko is worthy of its UNESCO World Heritage status: it is a beautifully lush area of Japan. Surrounded by green, impossibly high and pointy mountains. Rice paddies: water reflecting the mountains, with green shoots just sprouting up. Large, many roofed Japanese houses with space, lots of space between them and the next.