Category: travel series
Looking Back at the Osaka World Expo 2025
We attended the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, about a week after its opening to the public on April 13. As the curtains close on the Expo after 6 months (the week of October 13, 2025), it feels like the right moment to look back at the creativity and innovation that unfolded on the artificial…
Looking back at our trips in 2024, Part 2
Happy New Year ! On this blog, it’s become a tradition to look back on some of the places we’ve traveled to over the past year. Let’s begin with a jazzy classical piece. Click ▶ to play In the second half of 2024, we made one overseas trip to Europe. Our entry point was Heathrow…
Looking back at our trips in 2024, Part 1
Goodbye 2024 – Hello 2025 On this blog, we have a tradition of reflecting on the memorable places we’ve explored over the past year. To set the tone, let’s begin with a track by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Click ▶ to play This post covers the first half of 2024. We started the Japan trip in Kanazawa…
Looking back at our trips in 2023, Part 2
Happy New Year ! It is a tradition on this blog in January to take a look back at some of the places we visited in the previous year. We were in Asia and Australia – read Part 1 is here. Enjoy some tunes and see where else we went in 2023. Click ▶ to…
Looking back at our trips in 2023, Part 1
Happy New Year ! It is a tradition on this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited in the previous year. Let’s kick off with some tunes by Australian artists (4 songs) and see where we went in 2023. Click ▶ to play Because of our move to a…
Road Trip from Lausanne to Tuscany – First stop: Turin (Torino)
After the pandemic faded in Europe, we took a road trip from Lausanne (in Switzerland, where we lived) to Tuscany. The 2-week long round trip took us across the Alps, south to the Mediterranean Sea where we made stops along the Ligurian coast before heading inland towards Tuscany. The towns where we stayed overnight were…