One of the most common questions I get from people asking me for information about the Setouchi Triennale is where they should stay during their time visiting the art festival, what place is best to use as a ‘base’? Usually, there are three possible answers coming to mind at first: […]
Travel
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So, as you may or may not know, Monday is part of my week-end (Saturday is not) and this afternoon I was downtown with 康代. It actually was her first time downtown since 華’s birth. Just as we were getting out of Marugamemachi Green, the newest shopping mall that […]
I’m finished packing (ok, I’ll be in an hour or two). We’ll be leaving Agen tomorrow at dawn, heading to Toulouse. There we’ll take a plane from Frankfurt and from there to Osaka, where we’ll take a bus to Takamatsu.
The events depicted on this post took place on May 18th, 2009. (Previously on Ogijima: I took a plane from Paris to Japan, via Hong Kong) The plane landed in the morning (well, I think it was the morning, I was completely jet lagged and it was only the […]
On May 17th 2011, two years ago today, I left France to travel to Japan for the first time, a trip that would have a great influence on me as you already know (if it hadn’t this blog wouldn’t exist in the first place). Let’s start with the beginning, […]
For a couple of days, on Reddit, on French blogs, I started to see that question popping up more and more. Here is my take on it. (Disclaimer: since I started this blog I decided to make it as consensual as possible for a bunch of reasons – the main […]