The Art of Slow Travel

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• Tokyo District Focus: Ueno
  It feels good to have jumped on the Slow Travel wagon once again. Having explored Tokyo slowly at the beginning of my trip in Japan, I’ll be publishing a number of posts focusing on the different Tokyo districts, my experiences in each plus information about what they have to offer. This week, let’s have a [...]
  Friday 24th of May 2013 04:00:58 PM
• Tokyo district focus: Roppongi
  It feels good to have jumped on the Slow Travel wagon once again. Having explored Tokyo slowly at the beginning of my trip in Japan, I’ll be publishing a number of posts focusing on the different Tokyo districts, my experiences in each plus information about what they have to offer. We arrive at Narita airport [...]
  Saturday 18th of May 2013 02:24:14 PM
• A Postcard to My Blog
  Dear Blog, I am so sorry that things have been really quiet here lately. My last proper holiday was when I travelled in Vietnam and Singapore over a year ago (minus that short, 4-day trip to New Zealand). But now I am writing to you during my 3-week trip in Japan, which is turning out [...]
  Monday 13th of May 2013 02:27:47 AM
• On why I love being an expat
  The problem with working in the travel industry is that now, my to-visit list has spiraled out of control. While in the past I seemed to have one main country fixation per year (recently Vietnam and Japan), making picking where to go on holiday next a relatively easy task, now I seriously don’t know where [...]
  Saturday 6th of April 2013 02:41:11 PM
• Love with a Chance of Drowning ? Why I still love this book
  Editor’s note: I am totally crap at summarising stories and that’s definitely not the point of this review. To read a summary of ‘Love with a Chance of Drowning’, please click here, where you’ll also find a delightful book trailer. The world doesn’t need another ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ style book, and while Torre De Roche’s [...]
  Friday 29th of March 2013 04:54:52 AM
• The Hidden Melbourne
  Jerome points down a dead-end laneway I?ve been passing everyday for weeks on my way to work. From this angle, it looks unremarkable with it back-of-buildings look, exposed drain pipes and garage doors which I always assumed conceal parking spaces and storage spaces, unremarkable, that is, until I notice the three groups of people clustered [...]
  Sunday 24th of March 2013 01:38:41 AM
• Beautiful Melbourne and Victoria
  Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while will surely remember me whining about how I couldn’t quite fall in love with Zurich and Switzerland, which caused me to ultimately decide that I needed to live somewhere else, and to pick Melbourne, Australia. And now that I am nearing my 1st [...]
  Sunday 24th of February 2013 01:52:43 AM
• Picture Perfect: Singapore Signs and Fines
  Before I visited Singapore, a friend on mine told me that he thought the country to be too sanitized. I asked him what he meant, and he said that, for him, there were too many rules to follow and too many things to be careful about. Incidentally, this friend is Swiss! As soon as I [...]
  Saturday 16th of February 2013 11:50:21 PM
• The virtues of slow travel through Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
  This is a guest post Despite global financial woes, visitor numbers to South East Asia continue to grow by a rate of 10% a year. In 2011 alone visitor numbers from Australia to Vietnam and Laos grew to 280,000 and 31,000 respectively, and the total number of foreign tourists heading on an independent or guided [...]
  Saturday 16th of February 2013 08:26:24 AM
• On Projects and Stuff
  At the beginning of every year, in some random moment of inspiration, I always reach for the nearest piece of paper – a receipt, a Mcdonalds napkin, an empty page of the travel guidebook I’m devouring – and scribble a list of things I want to achieve that year on it. In past years, my [...]
  Saturday 2nd of February 2013 01:44:06 PM

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