When our work commitments were over, my colleague and I tried to make the most of Tokyo. The result was a frantic journey that is difficult to reconstruct in exact order. So I organized my memories by theme: temples and shrines, the city and its infrastructure, food, and museums. Temples and shrines Sensō-ji is a…
I made this trip alone. Or at least I arrived alone. My colleagues would be arriving a few days later.I went through immigration very quickly at Haneda Airport. Then I did what I usually do first: stopped for a coffee. There was an amazing coffee shop waiting for me, where I had a cappuccino and…
As soon as I arrived in Seoul, with the temperature around 5°C, something immediately amazed me in the small hostel where my colleague and I were staying: the floor was warm. I later learned that it was heated by hot water circulating through pipes beneath the surface. That might not impress a European very much,…
My first trip to China was also my first real encounter with Asia, and it could hardly have started in a more unfamiliar place. I arrived there for work in 2014, beginning in Dalian, without really knowing what to expect from the country beyond the images and stories I had seen from afar. The ground…
The beginning of Eastbound: a personal journey toward Japan, bicycles, craftsmanship and a slower way of travelling.