Oh deer! It’s time for my 100th post. Let’s start by thanking all my deerest readers, you make me deerlirious of joy, thank you for existing. <3 I have a story for you. Once upon a time, there was an epic city in a far, far away land. It so happened that one day, the […]
Author: Emma
Kyoto’s golden temples and crimson leaves
Before I moved to Asia, I would stalk people’s pictures and blogs and jealously look at them in, on and around various exotic, fascinating, strange temples of curious, foreign religions. I’d be in awe – the incredible colours, the picturesque tilt of the roofs, the marvellous costumes, and wonder about the fascinating stories behind these alien […]
The Bullet Train to Kyoto
aka Travelling in Hope. The Japanese Bullet Train is a classic. Like the Eiffel Tower in France, kiwis in New Zealand, Langkawi Sky Bridge in Malaysia, or toasted rye bread in Finland, it’s something you really shouldn’t miss if you’ve made the effort to go visit the country. Especially for me, I guess I have […]
The last 24 hours in Tokyo
…which include AMAZING JAPANESE FOOD, autumnal colours and tilted roofed houses around the Imperial Palace Gardens, the Tokyo Metropolitan Building and its high views, the electric city Akihabara, with a final morning ending with Shibuya crossing (part 3) and what else than SUSHI. ____________ Did you know Japanese sugar comes in long tubes? (Did you […]
Quirky Harajuku Street
Osaka, Tokyo You Harajuku girls Damn, you’ve got some wicked style… Sings Gwen Stefani in probably her best song, What you waiting for? many, many years ago. One of the things I was most looking forward to in Tokyo was the famous Harajuku shopping street, spotting funkily dressed, stylish, fashionable Japanese people and, well, maybe be able […]
Tokyo – the modern, the historic and the cute
I woke up in Tokyo on my first day in Japan, feeling slightly anxious and out of my comfort zone. Tokyo. It’s pretty big. (The most populous metropolitan area in the world, with a population of 38,6 million in the metropolitan area. That’s nearly eight Finlands.) I’d arrived at the hostel at around 1am, following a […]
The ABCs of Japan according to Google
Apologies for the one-and-a-half-month delay – I decided to get my own website and editing every single pic in my imported blog took a whole lot longer than I expected… So, to celebrate my quarter of a century, here is my new website! But now let’s forget time and let’s get back to last year… […]
Jiufen, Taiwan: The definition of Travel
Let me introduce you to Jiufen, Taiwan. This is Travel. These pics define more or less my image of Travel with a huge, beautiful capital T. Mountains, sea and an exotic temple to remind you this is not just anywhere. My last whole day in Taiwan I spent with T and L exploring further away […]
A study of Taiwanese clouds: Yangmingshan National Park
Taiwan is known for its gorgeous scenery. The ‘easy’ option for stunning mountain views, nearish to Taipei, was the famous Yangmingshan National Park. So, one morning me and my mates J & T (the ones in the celebrity selfie a few entries back) decided to try it out. We had been warned the previous day it had been way […]
Comprehending untamed backsides of Taipei zoo
Why did Tigger put his head down the toilet? He was looking for Pooh. My go-to joke, and, don’t worry, profoundly appropriate for today’s topic. Taipei zoo is like a large, ecologically aware five-year-old. This in relation to the percentage of time spent discussing what you produce in the WC / bathroom / toilet / […]