This is one of my favourite coffee shops in Sendai. It is called Lindenbaum. It is very relaxing, I love the use of concrete for interior, classical music that would quietly ease your woes and calm, friendly atmosphere. The coffee shop is named after German composer Schubert’s “Der Lindenbaum” a well- known song in the [...]

I returned to Sendai to see my good friend Stephanie. We traveled together loads. She was my rock; she listened to me moan about how home sick I was and my cultural frustrations- she helped move them from polemic to pragmatic. Stephanie is an architect by trade but is very passionate about teaching English as [...]

I promised to upload some pictures and posts about my Easter holiday in Japan, so as promised here they are. I returned to Japan as a tourist, to show my boy around a country where I had spent 3 years of my life. I introduced him to my friends, the amazing food culture I so [...]

I am in Yamagata, Japan, sitting in a little Internet/magazine shop trying to find out where my lost pair of glasses are. It is really nice to be back; I’m slowly realising that my Japanese isn’t too bad, but my pronunciation sucks!! Getting a bit bored of being a tourist- expatriatism all the way! The [...]