It is a strange feeling to come back to a place almost 4 years later! It feels funny, but it is definitively nice!
Japan will always have a special place in my heart, as it was pretty much my first backpacking trip! It was back in August 2010 and we explored everything between Tokyo and Hiroshima in 20 days! Here is actually a little video we made about this incredible trip!
Going to new places is quite an adventure as you have to learn everything from scratch, and very quickly! The money doesn't look the same, the metro doesn't work the same, and going to supermarkets or restaurants is quite an adventure too! And if you don't speak the language, then you are pretty far from your comfort zone, which is amazingly exciting!
But sometimes, going to a familiar place is also quite interesting! I was really happy to be back in Tokyo, to go back to the places I have already been and to get back some incredible memories from 4 years ago. But things still change, and 4 years later I found a couple of things to be quite different! What I noticed first was the impressive Tokyo SkyTree Town that is now finished ... and it is something you see from pretty much everywhere! The view is pretty breath-taking, even though it is not cheap to go all the way up!
It is always a pleasure to go to Japan, a country like no other, where everything just seems to work as expected, where everyone respects the rule (even though I spotted a couple of Japanese crossing in red!), where everything is clean and safe, where food is delicious and where people are so nice and helpful!
And because I have a nice story to tell, I met again a guy I came across 4 years ago in a bar! He was bartender at the time and now he is going to record his first album in the coming months! That was a crazy coincidence we met again in Tokyo, and that adds to the feeling that this is really such a small world!
So people, be nice to each other, you never know if your paths will cross again!
Japan will always have a special place in my heart, as it was pretty much my first backpacking trip! It was back in August 2010 and we explored everything between Tokyo and Hiroshima in 20 days! Here is actually a little video we made about this incredible trip!
Going to new places is quite an adventure as you have to learn everything from scratch, and very quickly! The money doesn't look the same, the metro doesn't work the same, and going to supermarkets or restaurants is quite an adventure too! And if you don't speak the language, then you are pretty far from your comfort zone, which is amazingly exciting!
But sometimes, going to a familiar place is also quite interesting! I was really happy to be back in Tokyo, to go back to the places I have already been and to get back some incredible memories from 4 years ago. But things still change, and 4 years later I found a couple of things to be quite different! What I noticed first was the impressive Tokyo SkyTree Town that is now finished ... and it is something you see from pretty much everywhere! The view is pretty breath-taking, even though it is not cheap to go all the way up!
It is always a pleasure to go to Japan, a country like no other, where everything just seems to work as expected, where everyone respects the rule (even though I spotted a couple of Japanese crossing in red!), where everything is clean and safe, where food is delicious and where people are so nice and helpful!
And because I have a nice story to tell, I met again a guy I came across 4 years ago in a bar! He was bartender at the time and now he is going to record his first album in the coming months! That was a crazy coincidence we met again in Tokyo, and that adds to the feeling that this is really such a small world!
So people, be nice to each other, you never know if your paths will cross again!
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