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Hope you had a wonderful New Year’s Eve and I wish you all a very very happy 2015! Reviewing 2014, it was in simple terms, quite awesome! Personally, it was a lot of work but also very compensating; I shed a few tears, but I smiled even more. Travel wise, it was full of little…
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I hope you all had a wonderful christmas! I had a really good Christmas with lots of really nice little things, for me and the baby. I really can’t wait to finish the photos from Japan, so I can start uploading more recent photos. This year is going to be very different from all other…
Read MoreAfter being in Tokyo for a while we wanted to enjoy just being in the city, without any sort of agenda, so after trying to get tickets to the Ghibli Museum and failing miserably — we should have gotten it ages in advance (we *will* go back) — we decided to enjoy ourselves walking around…
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Before I start rambling about baby clothes and baby strollers and so on, let’s finish the photos from Japan, yeah? Yes. After a wonderful day and an even better night at Robot Restaurant, we took the train and headed out to Enoshima. This is a veeery tiny island connected to the mainland through a bridge.…
Read MoreBack in July, on the 18th was Keoshi’s birthday, so we knew we had to push it to the limit, even if being in Tokyo was already pretty much doing that. We strolled around Asakusa, bought a crazy amount of stuff, ending up with our hands full of bags right at the beginning of the…
Read MoreThe first day back in Tokyo we headed out to try something very different — Ramen. Ah but not the usual kind of Ramen, a deconstructed Ramen. The flavours were incredible, and I can still remember how decadent that fried chicken was, how it fell from the bone, how juicy and flavourful it was and…
Read MoreKiyomizu-dera was founded in the early Heian period (…) in 798, and its present buildings were constructed in 1633, ordered by the Tokugawa Iemitsu. There is not a single nail used in the entire structure. It takes its name from the waterfall within the complex, which runs off the nearby hills. Kiyomizu means clear water,…
Read MoreAfter an absolutely unique experience at Camellia we were led by Atsuko to another wonderful experience, that we had tried to do before, on our own, but couldn’t. Simply, we don’t understand Japanese, and you need to at least understand somewhat what you have on the menu. An Izakaya is a tavern-like establishment, a place…
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