Traffic Forecast Keeping to your lane on a cloud superhighway steers you clear of…rain? Having arrived from The Philippines where just being on a road takes...
Tag - Japan
The Candy Store Inside a hard shell, honeyed welcome, sweet tooth grin. Favours for strangers. Monday afternoon and the kids are tired, hot and grumpy. We spot...
Geisha Tea Party In every sip we taste the past, smiles dancing on blood red geisha lips. Kanazawa is one of the few places in Japan where Geishas still...
Lantern Festival Light has never been so heavy, companionship never so weightless. It started with one man, with one lantern, in one fishing town, somewhere in...
The Swimming Pool Blue ripples on sun distort what I once thought as I swim through air. In Kanazawa we are inspired to swim but the pool is full of...
Shrine Etiquette (Newly Acquired) Wash, bow, clap twice, wish. Ring the bell and offer thanks watch your worries float. We come across our first shrine en...
Beautiful Technology Booths dispense good looks. Print yourself a smooth new face. Cheat time..while you wait. We venture out into Osaka and end up in a giant...
Toytown Osaka Midnight riverscape. Flyover transformed into night sky scalextrics. We touchdown in Osaka for our first taste of Japan and drive right into the...
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Kirstie Pelling
Kirstie is the creative force and chief poet in residence of poetinmotion.org She is available for residencies, as a conference poet and wedding poet. She is also co-founder of The Family Adventure Project and a regular contributor to many online travel communities.
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