After another day of temple-watching in Kyoto we made a day trip to Nara last Monday. More tempels, but a few special ones: Todai-ji , the largest wooden building in the world, and the Kasuga Taisha shrine, surrounded by paths with hundreds of stone lanterns. Beautiful! The sleepy mountain town of Takayama was the next […]
Do you remember the song ‘Big in Japan’ by eighties band Alphaville? Listen to it on Youtube if you don’t… now that I’ve mentioned it, you will not be able to get the stupid song out of your head. I know I’m not!): Although Osaka is a convenient port of entry to Japan, it is […]
Beijing – like the rest of our trip in China so far – is fantastic. Apart from great sights such as the wall and the forbidden city, there are all sorts of pleasant surprises like we encountered on Sunday afternoon in the park, as you can see in the video below this story. The english […]
China is less exotic than I thought it would be, and a lot easier to get around in. It seems to rain a lot here, and if it doesn’t, it’s still very, very humid. For those reasons, we did not see too much of Guangzhou, although we know now where all the seahorses went: they […]
