The Ups and Downs of Travelling
We only spent a few hours in Osaka, but it started off super-relaxed: Sitting in a Ramen bar, taking a few minutes to pick a cheap hotel in Bangkok to…
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September 2018
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Only One Day in Kyoto
Hey, here are some more photos from Kyoto. Another Capsule Hotel From the Shinkansen Shopping Shrine Streets Night time More fooood
Akihabara, NSFW
Akihabara is Tokyo’s massive district for everything geeky: Video games, arcades, mangas, cosplay… as well as everything “adult”. And it’s probably the largest district of its kind in the world.…
On Cat Prostitution
At Narita Airport in Tokyo, it wasn’t hard to get a metro ticket. But on the second day I kept walking back and forth between multiple arrays of different ticket…
Visual Overload Deluxe
Shopping is not my thing. I get the feeling I know everything that really interests me already, and there’s nothing new to find. But when I first walked into a…
And This Is The Box You Sleep In
When booking my first capsule hotel, I was getting ready for an uncomfortable, but memorable experience. I was so wrong. These things are comfortable! They don’t feel like a coffin…
I Want That Mulan McNugget Sauce, Morty!
When leaving Hong Kong, I was expecting crowds and long queues at the airport, but it was the quietest airport I had ever seen. Hong Kong International Airport, Terminal 2…
Be Water, My Friend
It’s already here, our last night together in Shenzhen, and then everybody will be on their own again. After having dinner at a nearby restaurant, we decided to stay close…
Coffee, Mahjong, and Smokey Clothes
It was here in Hongkeng when I had my first real coffee in 25 days straight. The thin instant coffee that contains more sugar than coffee doesn’t count, obviously. It…
Welcome to Cupertino
So Megan, our Scottish girl, thought it would be a good idea to bring some sticky, moisturizing face masks to the long bus trip to Hongkeng (not kong) and hand…
Crotchless Pants
We’ve slept in very basic hotels in the past weeks, but this one was a bit different: The Xiamen Venice Hotel, an old 4-star romantic retreat hotel that had seen…
In China They Know How To Handle 🍆
Chinese people are into jelly. It comes in all forms and sometimes in surprising places, for example as small cubes mixed into ice cream or as jelly threads at the…