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JAPAN | Tue, 8 Mar 2016 | By kakimono | Views [391]
I was starting to run low on tea, so on Saturday I decided to return to Mariage Frères. Only not the Mariage Frères that I'd already been to, because that would have been too easy. Recall that the website put Osaka as ... Read more >
Tags: books, pastries, survival japanese, tea
IRELAND | Tue, 16 Feb 2016 | By wanderlustgail | Views [556]
I've struggled with what to write about the UK and Dublin. I had a great time, but the problem is that they felt too familiar to say much about them. My muse is a combination of strangeness, solitude, self-reliance, and idle time. There wasn't enough ... Read more >
Tags: budget, cotswolds, dublin, james joyce, sabbatical, swenys pharmacy, tea, temple bar, travel, warwickshire
JAPAN | Thu, 28 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Views [633]
On Saturday, I decided to take a train into Umeda.
I’ve been talking a bit about “living in Osaka,” which is a slight exaggeration. Not quite as great as the exaggeration I make when I say I live in Chicago, but it is true for ... Read more >
Tags: city, doll, skyline, tea, train, umeda
NEW ZEALAND | Mon, 9 Nov 2015 | By wheresmypants | Views [541]
Saturday was pretty fucking wonderful. I was having one of the best pots of tea in my life, eating breakfast with a perfect view of the waterfront, when my dad sent me a video of Hanson saying hello to me and telling me to visit some hobbits for them.... Read more >
Tags: art, kiwi, new zealand, photography, romance, tea, wellington, zoo
SRI LANKA | Wed, 30 Sep 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [890]
When I sat down to write this, I had a cup of tea next to me. When I sat down to finish it, I had another cup of tea. A third cup will keep me company as I edit the photos. Tea is my ritual, my companion, my main source of caffeine. For some reason, ... Read more >
Tags: culinary travel, food, hill country, sri lanka, tea, tea factory, world nomads, world travel
SRI LANKA | Fri, 18 Sep 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [1038]
“They’re called Italy.” “Excuse me?” “They’re called Italy.” “I’m sorry….what?” “ Idli . I-D-L-I.” “Oooooooh…..”
Such was the conversation ... Read more >
Tags: culinary travel, food, hill country, south indian food, sri lanka, tamil, tea, vegetarian, world nomads, world travel
SRI LANKA | Fri, 11 Sep 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [629]
Our epic, 7-hour train journey from Kandy to Bandarawela took us high into the mountains. I was now in tea. RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
As we pulled in, green mountains dominated the view, and a sign on the outskirts of town welcomed us to “... Read more >
Tags: #feastsl, culinary travel, food, hill country, liptons seat, sri lanka, tea, tea picking, world nomads, world travel
FRANCE | Wed, 9 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [403]
There was absolutely nothing I had to do on Saturday. No group activities or meetings with my landlady. No apartments to visit or courses to register for. Not even any homework, since the course with Christine had ended and the regular university classes ... Read more >
Tags: books, free time, shopping, tea
SRI LANKA | Tue, 1 Sep 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [1107]
When a particular country is mentioned, my mind usually thinks of its landscapes. Someone says Bolivia, and I think of salt flats. For Iceland, it’s those mighty waterfalls. Italy is a neatly-laid vineyard. The words ‘Sri Lanka’ have ... Read more >
Tags: culinary travel, food, hill country, hill country, sri lanka, tea, tea country, train, world nomads, world travel
CHINA | Wed, 29 Apr 2015 | By chinaho | Views [423]
Our day began with a struggle to create an evenly lit space in which to photograph Rob’s final works. He will be leaving all the drawings here in China, taking his sketches and preliminary drawings back with him to New York. Our hotel room is fairly ... Read more >
Tags: bamboo, fluid plans, gifts, laundry, lingyan temple, packing, tea, vegetarian food
SRI LANKA | Wed, 15 Apr 2015 | By wtarmstrong | Views [475] | Comments [1]
The safari jeep raced across the red clay track at a speed I would have thought impossible given the pitted, rutted, boulder littered road surface. Every teeth jarring bump we hit made my brick sized camera body with its foot long telephoto lens swing ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, elephants, jeep, leopards, nuwara ella, safari, sloth bear, sri lanka, tea, yala
CHINA | Fri, 10 Apr 2015 | By chinaho | Views [364]
Housekeeping and setting up the studio space defined the morning today. We smell sewage in the bathroom and it appears to us that the seal on the toilet is leaking… that wax ring on which the toilet sits should seal off all odor and moisture. ... Read more >
Tags: buying wool, communication, rectilinear assignment, tea, teaching, young artists in china
USA | Sat, 28 Mar 2015 | By chinaho | Views [428] | Comments [1]
We have received our Hep A shots and tetanus boosters, and started our typhoid pill regimine, which must be taken every other day the week before departure. Yes, we leave in less than one week! Bought new carry-on sized Osprey backpacks that seem to ... Read more >
Tags: chinese holidays, packing, preparation, quinming, tea, technology, vaccines
CHINA | Fri, 7 Nov 2014 | By adaptive | Views [468] | Comments [1]
After Longyan I made it Fuzhou and had my quick experience of losing my phone. Which is my life line because its how I am booking hostels, searching for maps, and writing this journal.
I decides to stay two nights in the Super 8 because ... Read more >
Tags: tea
MALAYSIA | Thu, 30 Oct 2014 | By miguel_rubi | Views [549]
Después de disfrutar unos cuantos días de la capital, comenzamos nuestro tour por la parte peninsular de Malasia.
Nos dirigimos a la estación Pudu Sentral, un tanto caótica y siempre llena de gente, donde te encuentras ... Read more >
Tags: cameron highlands, ipoh, tea
CHINA | Sun, 21 Sep 2014 | By adaptive | Views [518] | Comments [2]
I had lots of photos of me taken on the train last night. Everyone seemed to ignore me until a little bit into the ride I said "hello and where are you going?"
That opened up everyone's curiosity because I could speak a little mandarin, luckily a ... Read more >
Tags: hostel, photos, tea
UNITED KINGDOM | Sun, 17 Aug 2014 | By kakimono | Views [420]
I woke up to rain and the information that my family was going to the half-price hut to see if they could get tickets to shows. I was welcome to go with them, but if I wanted to take my time showering, eating breakfast, and drinking coffee, I could stay ... Read more >
Tags: fringe, musicals, referendum, scones, steampunk, tea, wilde
SRI LANKA | Fri, 8 Aug 2014 | By kurenai | Views [4407] | Comments [2]
Let’s start with the fun location-based travel first:
Pinawalla Elephant Orphanage: There were many places that touted elephants and elephant rides. Our organizers picked the orphanage for one very specific reason –... Read more >
Tags: ancient ruins, beaches, colombo, elephants, kandy, koneswaram, polonnaruwa, sri lanka, tea, temples
MOROCCO | Sun, 27 Jul 2014 | By kakimono | Views [551]
After class, I met up with Cynthia and Natasha for book shopping. Natasha was looking for an English/Arabic Koran for her brother and Cynthia was looking for 1001 Arabian Nights . I just like surrounding myself with books.
It had begun ... Read more >
Tags: arabic, books, tea
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