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The Perfect Light

As promised yesterday, here is the last part of my Japan journey. First, we returned to the Nara prefecture for a hiking day in the...

Sorry for the gap since the last post, I was pretty busy with translations and preparations for our Christmas trip to France. The diary...

28th of October 2017 - Just a day after my longest daily trip in the Kyoto area, I went with my wife for a "food & urban trip" to Osaka....

27th of October 2017 6:17, waiting for the bus near my share house, 40 km south from Osaka. The sun is up, the bus already full of sleepy...

More than 2 weeks have passed since I came back from Osaka. In Germany, I returned rapidly to the boring translator everyday routine...

The wind is still pretty strong, but the sun is shining at last! For the Osaka region, the typhoon Lan is over. Yesterday was a scary and...

Already almost a week in Japan! I had a great time in Nagoya and will maybe write about it later (until then, you can look at the photos...

Family stay in France with many transport difficulties, 5 tiresome days on the Frankfurt Motor Show, huge and difficult translations, the...

咲き終わった、亀虫の訪問、秋隣り End of the bloom, visit of a shield bug, fall is coming. Fin de floraison, visite d'une punaise, l'automne arrive. Ende...

Last week, one of my customers contacted me to know the signification of a kakejiku (Japanese scroll painting or calligraphy) she got...

Yesterday, I saw for the 2nd time this wonderful movie about nôkan - a traditional Japanese ritual encoffining ritual. Called おくりびと...

For the spring of 2018, a group of 2 people just booked a 14 days journey with Fukuchan Ryoko in the heart of Japan's two main historic...

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