Posted by Gringograss on Jun 27th, 2011 | 2 comments 
Tim and I were privileged to stay at Aya’s house in Nishikatsura, a small town in the Yamanashi Prefecture. Aya is a staff member and a good friend from the camp we just attended to a few weeks back. Nishikatsura is situated at the foot of Mount Fuji with a population of more or less five thousand, if I am not mistaken. The town is quite small and everyone sort of knows each other. I wonder...
Posted by Gringograss on Jun 24th, 2011 | 0 comments
I don’t know how we got there… but we did. We just relied on Google maps and had some help from our Japanese friends for scoring us our train tickets and for translating to us some important information about where we were going. (We had a guidebook, in Japanese, and it was probably the only guidebook that gave information on how to get there.) My friend did most of the research as it...
Posted by Lawless Wanderer on Jun 20th, 2011 | 0 comments
This is the fourth installment of a series on my backpacking trip around Europe. To read the previous installments, simply click here: Becoming a Lawless Wanderer, I AMsterdam and Belgium: beer and chocolates.
Ghent
Eager to make the most of my limited time in Belgium, Karl drove for another hour from Brussels to Ghent. Ghent is a compact city in the northern part of Belgium. Filled with...
Posted by Gringograss on Jun 16th, 2011 | 5 comments
We’ve had this trip in mind for months. I thought it was all drunk talk at first, like “yeah, yeah, Coron, yeah, yeah..” But a week later, Pipoy calls me on my phone: “Gring, I’ve booked the flights. Are you in?”. And I was like “Okay!”. The flights were cheap (P2000 return) and the season was perfect: the monsoon has passed and summer wasn’t...
Posted by Lawless Wanderer on Jun 13th, 2011 | 7 comments
This is the third installment of a series on my backpacking trip around Europe. To read the previous installments, simply click here: Becoming a Lawless Wanderer and I AMsterdam.
Beer and chocolates are two of my favorite things. Belgium’s beer and chocolates need no introduction, but for some reason, Belgium did not make it on my initial list of countries to visit. Tom, my Belgian drinking...
