Shinkansenism: team boarding the Shanghai to Nanjing express – the first stop of a month of time-zone bouncing.



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Enjoying the shade of a small shrine moments before heading to our next home interview. Taipei today, every. moment. precious. Good crew. Good vibe. Great participants.
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What is the difference in being there, and feeling there? It’s almost a decade since I first moved to Japan and it took about 9 months …
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A week of international travel on 18 litres capacity, with room to spare. Packing discipline frees the mind, body and soul.
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For those of you passing through Shanghai – the frog office has moved to a pretty impressive new warehouse premises – here. Plenty big, plenty …
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Last week’s Tokyo photo shoot with Chris Lane, and Karl Doyle holding the flash somewhere off to the left. It’s hard to smile when you’ve …
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A few days catching up with family in Kyoto. Its tough being ~6 weeks away from a newish born, but if its going to somehow work …
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Your wednesday is my friday. If there’s two things about life on the road/sky/waters its that where-ever you are everyone wants a piece of your time; …
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I’m now half way through a ~2 month road/train/sky/boat trip that has thus far thrown up some unintentional contrasts: from the manufactured, human scale of …
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Sometimes the seat-assign means you’re first off the plane, which means reading and interpreting the signs for those that follow. It sometimes feels like rats …
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