We are leaving for Norway in a couple of days and the weather up there is looking a little grim (9 degrees and all-day rain to be exact). On top of that we are both looking at ten days of isolation due to the Unspeakable Virus, so right now I am feeling extra fortunate that we got to enjoy some … Read more
Trips We Took: Around Öresjö
During our summer holiday this year we went to a cabin in the woods west of Trollhättan in southern Sweden. The cabin has been in Jonas’s family for many years and we have been coming there almost every year since we started dating. The cabin and the surrounding area is one of my favourite places on Earth. A perfect place … Read more
Gearing Up for Shikoku: Shampoo Bars and Toothpaste Pastels
Welcome to this little series I have decided to call ‘Gearing Up for Shikoku’. In these posts I will write about some of the gear we are testing out in preparation for our trip.
This first edition concerns something as accelerating as toiletries. More specifically shampoo bars and toothpaste pastels. If these two words mean nothing to you and … Read more
You Must Learn to Crawl Before You Can Walk
How does one prepare for a 1300 km walk? Or, to be more precise, how does one prepare to hike 1300km though mountainous terrain when the furthest they have ever walked is 10 km in one of the flattest countries on Earth?
One year ago, when it slowly became apparent that we were in fact going to go through with … Read more
So What’s This All About Then?
Five years ago when we first arrived in Shikoku it was more by chance than by design. Against everybody’s advice we had rented a car in Japan and were heading south in the hope of encountering some warmer weather and a change of scenery from Osaka’s seemingly endless cityscape.
I don’t remember if I knew of any pilgrimage prior to … Read more