Around this time last year, I was fortunate enough to have travelled to Barcelona. It was autumn. The weather was beginning to get a bit nasty and I was unprepared for the biting cold. But Barcelona is such a beautiful city that it was easy to forget the weather and focus on the wonderful…
Hotel Unizo’s Royal Garden Cafe serves three types of breakfast, all equally pleasing to the palette and delightful to the eyes. The first (and my favorite) is the traditional Japanese set. The set consists of grilled salmon.. miso soup… cold tofu… and pickled seaweed. Of course, there’s bottomless coffee and orange juice. Then there’s American…
I’ll start my Japan series with a quick review of my hotel. Please note that this is not a paid review. Being away from home sometimes takes its toll even on the most enthusiastic travellers (such as myself). Travel anxieties like homesickness, loneliness, and even insecurity can occur at any point of one’s trip. But…
I had the chance to travel to Tokyo, Japan last week to attend the Japan Prize International Contest for Educational Media. It was all at once exciting, exhilarating and nerve-wracking to be in such a beautiful and vibrant city. Needless to say, I was filled with mixed emotions the whole time because I was both …
