I recently went to America for the first time in my life. I've always been much more motivated to go places where there is really old, tangible history; places like Japan (which obviously I've been to a bunch) and Europe. So, America from that perspective wasn't as appealing. I had also heard all the obvious … Continue reading A week in Atlanta (or, omgosh squirrels and the CDC!)
I haven't had a chance to make it out to the Tesselaar tulip festival this year (though there's one weekend left and I'm hopeful!) but I got a chance to go last year and loved it. Tulips are my favourite flowers. I lived in Japan for a year and loved the cherry and plum blossoms … Continue reading Frolicking in fields of flowers, aka: Tesselaar Tulip Festival
During my year in Japan I made an effort to really go some of the places I hadn't managed to get to before. One of those places was Okinawa! It had always been a bit out of the way for my other, shorter trips to Japan, but living there it suddenly seemed much more feasible. … Continue reading Summer in Okinawa
Nabana no sato flower park in Mie prefecture (Japan) has to be one of the most brilliantly coloured places I've ever been. During the day (in the right seasons) park is filled with thousands of gorgeously coloured flowers, including fields upon fields of tulips. At night, over Winter (usually slightly longer than Winter; November til … Continue reading Nabana no Sato winter illumination (or: the most fairy lights you’ll ever see!)
Claire, here and there 