As I sit at the departure gate in Dubai, waiting for my flight to the Seychelles to be called, I’m starting to feel a wee bit lonely.
Author
Wendy Smith
Wendy Smith
I have worked in the travel industry for 23 years and with Intrepid for the last 8.5 years. I’m based in Melbourne, Australia. My most life-changing travel experience (other than Antarctica) was 15 weeks on the back of an overland truck from Kathmandu to London in 1990. I lived and worked in Scotland for 15 years and call Glasgow my second home. When not working, travelling or mothering, I like to see live bands and often have to fit travel in around concert dates (Dave Grohl comes before everything!).
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A ryokan is a Japanese-style inn that involves sleeping on futons or mattresses on tatami mat floors, with bedding often packed away during the day. And this is what it’s actually like to stay in one.