Best Bakery in Jaffa - Tel Aviv

The Best Bakery in Jaffa - Tel Aviv.
Last weekend in Tel Aviv I walked down to old Jaffa. The I found this fantastic old traditional bakery. People were standing in line waiting for the fresh baked food to come out of the owen.
If you are in Tel Aviv and goes to Jaffa stop at the main street called Yefet Street at Bakery Said Abulafia & Sons. Have something great to eat and then pick up some fresh Pomegranate juice to accompany that!

Sakura-Cherry Blossoms in Japan

Cherry Blossoms in Tokyo
Every spring the blossoming of the cherry trees brings spring to Japan. The Japanese go crazy and bring out their families to sit under the trees and have picknick in the parks werever there are cherry trees. When I am in Tokyo in spring I like to head to Nakano just a 5 minutes ride with JR train  from Shinjuku station. Here you find not only beautiful parks in pink but the roads are also covered with sakuras. When the petals fall down its like walking in snow! The blooming is in late March and early April in Tokyo.
Do as the Japanese - Bring your camera!

Yodobashi Akiba

Paradise for shoppers of cameras, phones, computers, household goods and toys!
Yodobashi started out as a camera store but how have this huge shops all over Japan! You can easily spend a few hours here on the 9 floors. Here you find the biggest selection you can imagine of technology goods. If you need a tripod for you camera you can get lost among more then 400 hundred of them! Same with all the items! If you can not find it here you can hardly find it at any other store in Japan.
I have been coming to Yodobashi for over 20 years to the Shinjuku store but in this store in Akihabara you can stay longer as you have a restaurant floor when you need some rest and get hungry.
You can bargain about 5 % here and if you bring you passport you can get taxfree for tourists!

Yodobashi- Akiba
JR station Akihabara
open daily 09.30-22.00

Punta Tombo - Penguins in Argentina

If you like wildlife and happens to be  in Argentina take a 2 hours flight down to Trelew from Buenos Aires. About 100 km south of Trelew you find Punta Tombo were about 500.000 penguins come back from the Atlantic to give birth. First the males come to prepare the nests in early November and 2 weeks later the females come to the shores.
The females listen to the sounds given by the males so they can find the nest and their partner. The eggs and baby penguins are taken care of by both parents and they take turns to go down to the ocean to find food for their baby. They stay here until late April when they leave the nest and spend 6 months in the Atlantic again.

Most tourists stay in Puerto Madryn 50 km north of Trelew and take tours here over the day. There are plenty of local agencies downtown that arrange daytrips.

Tokyo City View - Roppongi Hills

For a spectacular view of Tokyo during the day, sunset or evening head for the Tokyo City View and the Observation Deck of Roppongi Hills. Here you are standing outside on the roof top 270 meters high up in the middle of downtown Tokyo. The best time to get here is around 17.30 to watch this metropolis turn on the city lights. You get a full 360° view of Tokyo and in a clear day you can see Mount Fuji on one side and Tokyo Bay on the other.
Tickets are 1500 Yen at the entrance or 1200 in any convenience store or Tickets Pia.
Open from 10.00 to 23.00

Subway stop: Roppongi on Hibiya Line or Oedo Line

https://tcv.roppongihills.com/en/

Hoshokaku Ryokan in Takayama, Japan

You can not visit Japan without spending at least one night in an traditional exclusive Ryokan or a more family style Minshuku. In these places you usually have great Japanese dinners and breakfasts included in the price. You do not need to bring any special clothes as you will get a yukata ( bathrobe ) to use when you walk around the Ryokan as well as during dinner. Select one that has and hot spring bath (onsen) and preferably with an outside bath (rotenburo)
Over the years I have visited the great Ryokan of Hoshokaku in the old city of Takayama. A great place to have a true Japanese stay!

Hoshokaku
1-88 Baba-Machi ( Shiroyama Koen)
Takayama-shi, Gifu-ken 506-0838, Japan
Tel: +81-0577-34-0700

Char Bar at Hotel Indigo, Shanghai

When in Shanghai I always try to visit the great rooftop bar and restaurant Char at Indigo Hotel.
This supercool hotel has mixture of contemporary China and the Shanghai of the 1930th.
It is the place to have a drink during sunset with the cool crowd of Shanghai and enjoy the spectacular view of the modern skyline of Pudong and Huangpu river. If it rains or if it is to hot outside the bar inside is the place to be.

Indigo Hotel
585 Zhongshandong Er Road, Huangpu Area
Shanghai 200010 China
tel. +86-21-3302 9999