Call me strange (plenty have in the past), but until the age of twenty-five, I never drank tea or coffee. And I still don't drink coffee to this day. But the tea - well, the tea is all about travelling.I lived in Japan for two years. Sure, you can live in Japan and ignore some of the traditions, but …
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Karaoke boxes: Why you shouldn’t be scared of them!
When I tell Western friends I'm off to karaoke for the night, I very often get a strange reaction. Usually it's because they imagine me singing up front of a large crowd of strangers. No way! I'm talking karaoke boxes, the kind you typically find all across Asia and are easy to find in most …
The Japanese love of cute (and my Snoopy bank card)
Doing some tidying over the long weekend I found a box full of memories from Japan. It appeared to be a box I posted home to Perth at the end of my stay, then didn't really unpack because I didn't get back to Perth for three more years. It was a real trip down memory lane, with numerous cards and …