Whilst start-ups may satisfy the adventurous feelings of most people, and by Jove is there a lot of uncertainty and compromise, for me, there’s no greater than adventure than the open...
Wales: Scaling Snowdon
We’d done Fuji together, and that’s 3000m! Snowdon was more than doable, a mere amble at 1000m – right...
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San Francisco: Fake Tales
So turns out, good weather is exceptionally rare in San Francisco? You wouldn’t know that from the week I spent...
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Japan: Final Farewell Thoughts
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang Sitting at my desk, on my last day of school, I...
Kuju: Climbing 久住山
Kota had the wonderful idea of meeting at 9am at his work office somewhere in Taketa – this off the back of a night in Mie trying to finish off all the alcohol in my apartment before...
School: Oita Sofukan High School
Oita Sofukan High School October 2015 – January 2016 Oita Sofukan is a strange school, even by Japanese standards, much more like UK college than anything else here. Classes run for...
豊後大野市: The Bungo-ono Guide
Situated in the southern part of Oita prefecture, in March of 2015 the city celebrated its 10 year anniversary since combining 7 small towns and villages: Mie, Ono, Asaji, Inukai, Ogata...
大分市: The Oita City Guide
Oita City. The name has a certain grandeur to it. But to for all intents and purposes, Oita city is a city by name, and not much else, when compared to its neighbour Fukuoka. But...
Kurokawa Onsen Village: Birthday Bananza
Another year, another year older, and as is my custom in January, I celebrated this passing with a party. But not by spending the night at a ‘Spoons, hitting on chicks called Sandra that...
London: Stranger in Familiar Lands
Christmas 2015 saw my first return to the UK since moving to Japan 17 long months ago – so what did we learn about the UK? Well… English Only Please Even at the airport, all...
How2: A Brit driving in Japan
Many people are oftern concerned about driving in a foreign country. Luckily for British people (and many others) Japan has made the right decision of driving on the left hand side of the...
Yakushima: On a Quest for Princess Mononoke
“Cut off a wolf’s head and it still has the power to bite.” Apparently, but alas I was unable to test this hypothesis during my recent trip to Yakushima, aka, the scenic...