Stories
Places, told as we lived them. Moments, encounters and the feelings only travel can give you.
In this article At a glance Why Ireland (again) Travelling solo: at my own pace Dublin: Temple Bar, Grafton Street and a Guinness I never got Christmas pints with friends Dundalk: my Erasmus at 20 Galway, the Christmas market and the best seafood chowder Getting from Dublin to Dundalk and Galway How much Ireland costs […]
Byōdō-in, the temple on the 10 yen coin in Uji: a sunny day, a museum full of unique pieces, the shopping street, tickets, prices and how to get there from Kyoto.
For years, Disney was a "someday". This year I visited Disneyland Paris, Tokyo Disneyland, DisneySea and Universal Studios Japan with my 8-year-old.
We walked down from Otagi to Arashiyama in the rain: an empty Saga-Toriimoto, wild monkeys, the Adashino bamboo path all to ourselves, Tenryū-ji at sunset and the Kimono Forest.
1,200 stone statues carved by visitors, covered in moss, on a hillside west of Kyoto. Why Otagi Nenbutsu-ji is a must see and how to get there.
Our taxi driver took us through the Kiyotaki Tunnel, one of the most haunted places in Japan. The 444-metre legend, the mirror and the river on the other side.
Nara was a last-minute plan B. We arrived after dark, with no deer crackers and nobody around, and ended up surrounded by dozens of deer.