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Wow…amazing!
teamLab Planets Tokyo is an arts museum awarded a Guiness Book of Records for most visited museum in the world for 2023. Two and half million visited that year and I was keen to see what all the fuss was about. Well…OMG….A…mazing! So what is it all about? It sells itself as a fully immersive…
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“When they go low we go high”
Michelle Obama, 2016. How high should we go? I want to put my head in the clouds, and did exactly that yesterday. The Skytree in Tokyo is the tallest tower in the world at 634 metres ( 2,030 feet) and a must see on a visit to Tokyo. Opened in 2021 at a cost of…
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First Impressions.
22 hours travelling including 4 hours sleep in a claustrophobic, hard, upright seat in an overhot plane is really not easy. But then I was happy to finally arrive in a rainy Tokyo after seeing that Turkish Airlines had flown us in a Boeing 757 Max. Memories of all those new planes sitting out in…
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Country File : Japan
Japan is one of those countries we all know something about. Is it because we know it’s location ,the name of its capital, that is predominately Japanese people speaking Japanese or maybe because we’ve all owned a Sony TV? I’ve gleaned important facts in my reading about Japan. Firstly, it is classified as an archipelago…
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Why Japan?
When did I first become aware of Japan? A tricky question for someone who can’t remember what I ate for breakfast! I think the answer to this would be origami, the art of taking a flat piece of paper and, without any glue or clips, folding the paper to create 3D images. So Japanese, and…
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Where have I been?
This is a question I asked myself today, after opening my blog for the first time in 11 months. I would love to report that I have been on a world tour or something similar, but the truth is far less glamorous. For the last 7 months, bar a spot of Camel Wrestling (which itself…
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A week in Extremadura
I am pleased to have been asked by my sister, Kate, to be the first guest writer on her blog to reflect on a week in Extremadura birdwatching with 3 friends – Matt, Gary and Dave. For those who don’t know Extremadura it is a region of Spain some 300km south west of Madrid on…
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UN13 : Climate Action : Chile
It’s a long flight from Turkey to Chile. Routing through Sao Paulo you are a minimum 20 hours travelling or if you get it wrong 30 hours. Yet this is a country I have always wanted to visit. The land of Isabella Allende, the Andes, Chilean Patagonia and the Atacama Desert. How can a country…
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Reflections : Madagascar
It is good to look back and reflect on my whole experience. My thoughts were this: Choose the project more carefully next time. I want to work hard for a meaningful cause. It was, sadly, difficult for me to be with only young people. I was an outlier, although I learned a great deal from…
