"love"

In and around Reykjavik, Iceland Iceland was, to me, a place of magic and mystery, a place with warm people and warm food, a place with fishing boats and tiny horses. The…

(photo taken by my mum) On the train from Mongolia to Russia “I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Those whistles sing bewitchment: railways…

On the Kinabatangan River, Malaysian BorneoWe woke before the sun came up, stumbling to put on our over-sized gumboots that were already caked with mud from a jungle walk the day before.…

The South Island, New Zealand After a bottle of wine, a heavy rainstorm, the sale of my piano, the decision to take not one but two boxes of books with me to…

Hoi An, Vietnam Why am I leaving Japan? Because as much as I love it here, I love it out there more. It’s simply time for another adventure.

(photo by L.) (photo by L.) Athens, Santorini, and Crete, GreeceAnd those days, I felt invincible. I wandered the streets of Athens, searching for the restaurant with the best spanakopita or the…