In between 3 weeks of travel, 10 days of pre-holiday detox and cat cuddles with 14 adorable feline friends, my October month has been nothing but hectic! I have to admit that keeping up with posting on the blog has proved to be challenging at times when I’m on the road. But fear not, my lovelies, I

There are well over a hundred cat cafes all over Japan, but there’s only one devoted exclusively to black cats – a cafe called Nekobiyaka in the castle town of Himeji. So when my travels took me to the nearby city of Kobe last week, I couldn’t resist taking a brief detour to check it out. I