The Tropics of Japan

[I'm in the middle of my trip to Japan, check back soon for earlier/later posts.] We spent the night at a cafe/hotel in a »

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South Korea part 2

I had two days to explore Seoul itself. Here we go. Seoul itself is quite hilly, and it has a large variety of buildings. They look »

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A Mountain in South Korea

This December I made my first trip to South Korea. I'm going to combine six days into just two posts. For the first part of my »

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Hiking in Nikko

As planned I got up early, fetched my Japan Rail pass from Tokyo station (actually easier than it sounds), and got on a train to Nikko. »

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Akihabara, Tokyo

And now, the first full day in Tokyo. I woke up at 6am; managed to trick myself into falling back to sleep and this time was »

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Shanghai and Japan from the air

Shanghai I was preparing to leave Shanghai. My roommate took me to an extremely hidden food place and I had sesame-sesame-soup balls that were pretty tasty. »

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Exploring Shanghai

First full day in Shanghai. I woke up at 7:30am as if time zones were not a problem! For comparison, the night before... Only 93 »

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China and Japan

I'm going to Shanghai for a conference. Then, Tokyo and Kyoto afterwards just for fun. Bye for now... First I had to make it through a »

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Budapest On a Sunny Day

Today, I went to Vajdahunyad Castle further inland on the Pest bank... It wasn't as nice as Buda Castle though, so I went back there to »

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Back to Europe

Hi everyone, I'm in Europe again for a short time before a conference. I wasn't planning on writing blog entries, but now I kind of feel »

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