I love flowers. It’s astounding in how many colors those beautiful petals come and how they can please the eye as little dots of color along the way. Of course there are little front yards and flowers on the balconies in Germany, but here in Japan I find it amazing how many flowers can fit…
Our trip to Taiwan was just in time for the Dragon Boat Festival on June 20th and of course we set aside the morning to go and have a look at the scene. The Festival is held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar and is said to date back…
The next day was a rough start. Well, as we went to bed around 4 am you probably can’t really say “next” day. (Random Fact: I somehow always feel like it’s only the next day after I went to bed, does this happen to you,too?) Breakfast was till 10 am and we actually managed to…
It is astounding how many pictures one can take in only four days… It took me quite some time to sort through all the pictures I made in Taiwan but I really like most of them and they look so much different than pictures from Japan. But let’s start from the beginning and work our…
Reblogging because it’s just one of the things described in it, an article you read while thinking “Yes, exactly!” The Bloggess The greatest gift in the world is to grant a kindness to another. The amazing thing though is that the aforementioned gift is one you give yourself. It may be a small thing. Leaving…
While I was in Japan for my semester abroad I wanted to try everything new and was fascinated with all the things I had never heard of in my home country. When my (now) husband was time and again providing me with those little hairsprays and wax and whatnot in perfect handbag (i.e. sample) size…
Do you know Texan in Tokyo? I bet you do and enjoy reading her blog and watching her videos just like I do (^_^) But for the unlikely case that you are not yet familiar with it, let’s look at a short introduction from Grace: “Grace Buchele Mineta is a native Texan, founder of the…
On Sundays, especially on sunny Sundays, the Imperial Palace is a great place to visit. Not the palace itself, nor the famous Nijûbashi, but the Imperial Palace Grounds. The vast space of the park with it’s neatly trimmed grass and shady trees is the perfect place to relax. On Sundays some of the surrounding parts…
I think I have mentioned before that our apartment has solar cells, which I thought to be quite fancy. I’m sure most of you know how the system works, but let me just give a short overview. The energy the solar cells generate, which is on average about 7 kw, is used whenever possible before…
I am so excited! I haven’t had a proper vacation in ages and I desperately want one. My husband pretty much felt the same and because he can’t take too much vacation at a time we decided to make a short-trip. My husband wanted to go somewhere outside of Japan, but with limited time we…
I lost my heart in Japan 