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I want to go back to Kyoto 24 Aug 2013 | 06:33 am
When people ask me what my favourite part of Japan was during my 3-week visit, I tell them that I loved all of it, and that I really can’t pick. I loved both the traditional and weird aspect of Tokyo,...
By the water in Singapore 16 Aug 2013 | 05:21 pm
Singapore is one of those comfortable places where I’d happily return even once a year on my way to somewhere else, just to walk along the gorgeous quay, revisit my favourite neighbourhoods and stuff ...
Daytripping in Nara: Disclaimer, you’re in for a lot of deer pictures 10 Aug 2013 | 04:19 pm
You would think that after having stroked and fed deer in several countries around the world I would be content to seek other kinds of touristic pleasures. Well you would be wrong. When I heard for th...
Stuck in a Vivid dream: Osaka by night 3 Aug 2013 | 04:51 pm
For me, the fun about travelling across a country is to find moments, and places which, when you look at them in detail, scream ‘This is me’ in their own particular way. Every place is unique, and wit...
Torii Gates, deer and food on a stick: The pleasures of Miyajima 1 Aug 2013 | 03:56 am
At one point of our travelling life or other, we’ve all done it. We’ve all been to a place which is so iconic and over-photographed that we might have wondered whether it is really worth it to visit o...
Hiroshima, you are unexpected 11 Jul 2013 | 06:04 am
Don’t ask me why, but one of the places I didn’t want to visit in Japan was Hiroshima. It might have been the fact that I am uncomfortable with the whole notion of disaster tourism, or simply because ...
So this is what Kyushu looks like 22 Jun 2013 | 07:06 am
The airplane takes a turn over clear blue water of Kyushu, the city of Fukuoka hugging the sinuous coastline and lacking the skyscrapers I had got used to in Tokyo. ‘Fukuoka can’t have skyscrapers,’ t...
Mount Fuji is one beautiful mountain 14 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Boyfriend and I run to our reserved seat carriage when the train comes to a stop, as the numbers are totally wrong on the platform floor and we were waiting in the wrong spot. We put our medium-sized ...
When I let go: Visiting the unexpected Tokyo 7 Jun 2013 | 04:47 pm
There are many reason why I, personally, don’t like solo travel, and what single travellers constantly mention as one of its main perks is perhaps what I find the worst thing of all. I am speaking abo...
Toyko District Focus: Asakusa 31 May 2013 | 07:00 pm
It feels good to have jumped on the Slow Travel wagon once again. Having explored Tokyo slowly at the beginning of my trip in Japan, I’ll be publishing a number of posts focusing on the different Toky...
