Part One of My Travel Adventures There are certain memories from travelling that stay with you for years, and quite often they’re not the ones you’d expect. You might spend an afternoon visiting some famous attraction, take a hundred photographs and then...
Part One: Arriving in the City of Peace I had just finished my visit to Osaka. I cannot believe how exciting Osaka was. I even ventured into the social nightlife scene — a vibrant, electric world unto itself that I hadn’t quite anticipated. But every great...
Alright, travel tribe, buckle up! Or rather, settle into your impossibly comfortable, spotlessly clean, hurtling-through-the-countryside-at-nearly-300km/h seat. Because we’ve just left the electrifying neon symphony of Tokyo behind (catch up on Part 1 if you missed...
The Seed Was Planted Years Ago: Images of serene temples juxtaposed with neon-drenched streets, bullet trains slicing through landscapes, and the promise of a culture both deeply ancient and cutting-edge modern had festered in my imagination. It wasn’t just...