Efish is a funky riverside design café in the south of the city. Laid out over two floors with huge windows opening out onto the water, Efish is a cool place to escape the hot summer days.
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Bon odori
Every August throughout the Japan people are on the move back to their hometowns for the annual custom of Obon, a Japanese Buddhist custom to honour one’s ancestors’ spirits.
When does an idea stop being just an idea?
Intriguing sign at Nijo Castle
When do ideas morph from a gentle puff of a thought to a whisper of an idea, to a fluffy ball of a concept, to a living, breathing thing?
Kyoto cafes 5 – Boogaloo Café
Great pizza, big sofas and cocktails or coffee! Just a short bike pedal from Ginkakuji Silver Pavilion, Boogaloo Cafe Hyakumanben is a great place to chill out for hours.
Yojiya – my kind of shop
When you think about a shop selling cosmetics and toiletries what comes to mind? Something clean and white? Or perhaps slick and black? Or the bright busy interior of a drugstore? Well this is what my kind of beauty shop looks like…
Kinkakuji
Kyoto cafes 4 – Italian bar + café air
Things a brewin’
Have you ever bought someone a present that you just knew they were going to love, and had that feeling that you might just burst if you don’t give it to them right now? Well that’s how I feel with some of the exciting things going on behind the scenes here at Do What You Love.
A little piece of history
Just a few minutes’ spin of the bicycle wheel from our little place here in Kyoto stands a World Heritage Site, “a place of exceptional and universal value; a cultural heritage site worthy of preservation for the benefit of mankind”.
This astonishing city actually has 17 sites deemed this magnificent. Today I wanted to share Nijo Castle with you.
Hiroshima remembered
The A-bomb Dome – this was a trade hall when the bomb was dropped almost directly above it, and it was one of the few buildings left standing after the blast
We took ourselves on a little trip West last week. Our first stop was Hiroshima, the city where, on this day back in 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped. Since that horrific day Hiroshima has become a beacon for peace, and is home to a museum that hit me harder than almost any other place I have ever visited.