On a Floating Bridge » Archive for 2008
Nooo Mr. Clooney!
There is something about Japanese advertising, at times, that just punches you in the face. I’m not talking about the often reported, funny, imperfect English sentences that make no sense but tag lines in either language that, without any irony, say outright: this product will make people like you. Advertising companies, in the UK at least, couldn’t get away with these kind of statements (however much it might be what they’re really trying to say) but … Read entire article »
Filed under: Eco Seikatsu, Generally Japan, The Green Agenda
Seishun 18 kippu season opens!
Its holiday season in Japan. To mark the occasion a large section of the population takes one of the few opportunities in the Japanese calendar to take a guilt free break from work. 65.7% of Japanese were living in urban centres in 2005, (which, surprisingly, according to the UN Common Database, is less than the UK’s 88.9% and the US’s 80.8% or Australia’s disturbing 92.7%) (By the way, finding myself extremely sidetracked by this awesome UN stats interpreter … Read entire article »
Filed under: Japan Slow Travel & Mini Trips, Slow Travel
Container Ships: Carbon Footprint
A few weeks ago I was contacted by Sophia Campbell about her flightless trip to India from the UK. With complicated calculations, the distinction from a huge array of vehicles efficiencies in each category, and fine-tuned judgment necessary to even start to calculate accurately your carbon emissions on a complicated journey, its no wonder that you might be in need of some help. I asked a range of people to help me out on … Read entire article »
Filed under: Eco Seikatsu, Slow Travel, The Green Agenda, World Slow Travel
Budget Flightless Japan- Korea
For those living in Japan without a healthy salary from a foreign firm, being frugal is an important pastime. Especially if you are an English teacher or a student here, life can often seem to be on a strict budget. Finding myself in a low income bracket, I have been looking for ways to enjoy slow travel on a budget. It’s not true that traveling without planes is for the rich and in this post … Read entire article »
Filed under: Flightless Travel Guides, Slow Travel, World Slow Travel
Happy Birthday Shinkansen, makete kureru?
My favourite thing in the world is riding the shinkansen, I have even come to be able to mimic the voice of the recorded Japanese announcer, I am that big a fan ‘kyou mo shinkansen wo goryou kudasaimashite, arigatou gozaimasu’ in a hypnotically rhythmic voice. Zooming through an alien landscape of mountains, rice paddies and temples; chewing on chocolate covered almonds. BUT, those priveleged days are all but a hazy memory from a time when … Read entire article »
Filed under: Generally Japan, Slow Travel
Cherry Blossoms Revealing Climate Change
In the space of about a week, Tokyo has woken up to find spring has arrived. The crisp icy days of January and February have receded and in the seasonal precipitation I can no longer see Mount Fuji from my school road around 60 miles east north east of the mountain. It is impossible to ignore spring in Japan. In fact, spring is Japan. Without spring, Japan is either a cockroach infested, half-baked notion … Read entire article »
Filed under: Eco Seikatsu, The Green Agenda
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