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kiyomizu-dera
What adventure from 2025 will be forever etched upon your memory? It would be super simple sitting here less than a month after spending most of November in Japan to just write… Japan! with a huge exclamation mark and move on to the next post (heck knows these days leading in the holidays are busy
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unreal asia
Did you travel in 2025? In 1998 I went to Europe for the first time. Until that moment of stepping off the plane and riding the train into London’s Victoria Station with my giant backpack over my shoulder, Europe was an abstraction in my head. It was this place I had heard about over and
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japan-oramas, one
November has ended, and on the last weekend of the month I time travelled across sixteen timezones, arriving back home before I left Tokyo. Weird, huh? Our flight left Narita airport at 18:30 on Saturday evening and we arrived in Edmonton at 16:20 the same day. International travel can mess with your mind… and your
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japanese, part four
Sayonara, but not forever. My class is done. My flash cards have just one more flash or so left in them. And I’ve definitely got Google Translate loaded up on my phone. As it is looking, forty-eight hours or so after writing this I’ll be sound asleep in Tokyo… y’know with the math on time
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Travel Memories in 1000 Pieces
Someone gave us a jigsaw puzzle for Christmas. Gifting jigsaw puzzles can be tricky. They vary in difficulty. Not everyone is into spending hours fiddling with a game like that. And then the vast variety of images depicted in their giant tabletop chaos can evoke a feeling that is often a matter of taste, particularly