So, long story short, on Sunday morning, the whole family ended up on a small motorboat and got a free mini-trip off the coast of Takamatsu and into the Seto Inland Sea. We left the marina, went to the red lighthouse, then to Megijima’s southern tip, turned around two buoys, […]
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Last Wednesday, the kids were having something near Sunport Takamatsu, so I decided to go take a walk there. I think I hadn’t done that in several months. And on a weekday, late afternoon? Maybe not in years. So, I just took a few random pictures with my phone (which […]
Believe it or not, I think it’s the first time I see the sunset in Japan on June 21st! In my first years here, I worked until after sunset (never again), and generally speaking, the Summer solstice usually takes place during the rainy season, so I mostly see rain on […]
Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost Japan is a book about the Shikoku Pilgrimage. Or rather, it’s a book about a young man in his late twenties walking the pilgrimage for the second time in his life. It was published last year and was written by Todd Wassel. This […]
You may have heard that I started a YouTube channel. I still have a long way to get before being able to make good videos, but I’m learning. As I can’t go to the islands these days (and it’s also a friendly reminder if you live in Japan, please, don’t […]
I’m on Spring vacation! This means that I’ve been pretty much quarantining at home lately and on purpose. This means that I’m pretty sure I’m not carrying the damn virus at the moment. This means that I can go to the islands a little bit without risking infecting the islanders! […]
Last week, I bid farewell to the old Meon, as you probably already know. I did it last week-end, because I knew I couldn’t be at Sunport today at noon when it actually left Takamatsu for the last time. My son had a year-end school event this morning, I obviously […]
Yesterday at noon, the old Meon came to Takamatsu for its farewell ceremony! It is being retired at the end of the week after almost 34 years of connecting Megijima and Ogijima to the rest of the world! Unfortunately, I missed the ceremony, but as I happened to be in […]
I ended the previous article with the picture of a non-descript dam whose name I don’t even know (if I search a little bit, I should find it, but it will be for when I write about it – let’s not waste time here if I want to manage to […]
Saimyo-ji is a small relatively unknown temple in Shionoe, in the south of Takamatsu. Its only claim to fame is the fact that most of its grounds are covered with flowers called hagi (Wikipedia tells me that they’re called Japanese clovers in English). And that’s enough for the temple to […]