Kyoto – Juichi-an

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Suitcase

After the cabin bag, our attention moves to the suitcase. It is an object that requires a great strategy, to be filled it with wonderful objects and curiosities and souvenirs to offer (to others or themselves). To avoid the “syndrome of dirty laundry” when coming back, to travel light and …

Things not to forget in cabin baggage

After making sure to have a valid passport, after asking some days-off, after making the route and bookings and transport, it is time to focus on the contents of the bag. There should be several bags (some contained in other at different stages). As for today, we focus on cabin …

Before leaving for a long journey…

… make sure you have enough vacation time! That, in fact, was not the case with me. It’s unusual for me to be wrong on this type of calculations, but no one is perfect, and I am no exception. The fact is that I miscalculated the accrued days of holidays. …

Whales

As I read the chapter about japanese diet in the book “Les Japonais” by Karyn Poupée, I decided it was important to learn the kanji meaning “whale” or Kijura (in romaji): the kanji should be pronouncing, I think gei . In all dishes that may contain fish, I’ll track down …

3rd kyu

It is with great pleasure that I announce you that I am now a 3rd kyu of Aikido. We had a passing grade last night and our revered Sensei decided to give me the grade. Shodan is still very, very far: Eric Sensei always corrects my errors – and every …

“We are barbarians…”

Talking with Nathalie, a friend from aikido, during a training this weekend, she told me about her Japanese experience. She spent a month there and that trip is her most memorable. I’m currently reading a book about Japan and the Japanese people (an online review will appear soon) and I …

“If you ever go to Japan…”

“If you ever go to Japan, can you give this newspaper clipping to my old buddy Hito? I have not seen him for at least 15 years, would be a way to reconnect.” Yes, I had this unusual request, at work. Japan has 127,368,088 inhabitants, anyway. This is twice the …

Nihon-go o hanashimasu ka? (Do you speak Japanese?)

Travel to Japan means discover another culture, other landscapes, another way of understanding the world and existence, and it is also discover another language. And Japanese has a reputation for being a difficult language, not because of a complex grammar, but because of these two syllabic “alphabets” hiragana and katakana, …

Japan Rail Pass

In order for us to travel freely once in Japan, we purchased the Japan Rail Pass. They came just a week after the order. It should be remembered that it can only be purchased outside of Japan. In fact it is just a coupon to be exchanged within a train …