Ekumae Lantern Festival, Japan
It was Friday morning and time for my driver’s test in Japan (driving on the other side of the road for…
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The Goto Islands- A chain of five islands in the East China Sea
So what do you do on your first weekend once you’ve arrived in a completely foreign country to live? Explore of…
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[OBON] Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.-George Eliot
Obon. What is Obon? Obon is a Japanese holiday in which they celebrate the spirits of the ancestors whom have died….
Read More“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”-Freya Stark
The Trip Over: The plane ride to Japan can be summed up with these words: Tiresome, Cramped, Stuffy, Irritable, Vexing, Perturbed….
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