Christmas at Marsh View
On Christmas Eve I made the 18 hour journey from Shenzhen to my hometown in the…
Month: December 2010
9 hours Designer Capsule Hotel
I’ve been lucky enough to stay at some very nice hotels over the past couple of…
Northern Higashiyama Photo Walk
After visiting Arashiyama and Fushimi Inari Taisha earlier in the day my next stop in Kyoto…
Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine
In the early afternoon of my second day in Kyoto I visited one of the most…
Adashino Nenbutsu-ji Stone Buddhas
As you might have already guessed from my previous posts Kyoto has a huge number of…
Life Without Language
Undoubtedly one of, if not the, hardest things about living in a foreign country is dealing…
Arashiyama Tenryū-ji Bamboo Forest
On my second day in Kyoto thick clouds hung in the air as I made my…
Shenzhen Fringe + PechaKucha Vol. 5
Last weekend Shenzhen opened its first Fringe festival centered around Coastal City in Nanshan (where I live)…
Nishiki Tenmangu Shrine
After a rather wet afternoon exploring Southern Higashiyama I headed towards the city center to find…
A Wet Welcome To Kyoto
I spent the second half of my recent trip to Japan in Kyoto (京都); formerly the…