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How organised are you?

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Tokyo

Arriving in Tokyo back in March without much of a plan

I like to think of myself as a very organised person. I love lists, notebooks, getting things in order. But that is only one part of my personality. Another part – the bohemian wandering part – has no interest whatsoever in being organised. And that is probably how I came to write in my journal, whilst sat on a plane to Japan at the beginning of this six month trip, that “I have never felt quite so unprepared for a trip in my life as I do for this one.”

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Naughty, naughty

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Beach

I led him astray.

He was supposed to be at school, learning some more grammar and having a kanji test.

But I pursuaded my man to skyve off for the day and we escaped to the beach.

Of course I wouldn’t generally advocate truancy… but it was all the more deliciously fun because we shouldn’t have been there!

My kind of Monday…

Daisen National Park

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En route to Daisen National Park

More glimpses from the road around Japan…

I travelled to many parts of Japan but this was my first time in Daisen National Park. They call the main mountain ‘Daisen’ the ‘mini Mount Fuji’ and you can see why from its conical shape. We wanted to get away from the hot hot city for a couple of days and this was the perfect place. In the winter it is a popular ski resort but in the summer, away from the roads, it is a hiker’s paradise.

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This is what Saturday mornings look like round here

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This is what Saturday mornings look like round here IMG 3204

Don’t get me wrong, I love Japanese food. I eat it nearly every day. But when you haven’t been brought up in a rice culture. every now and then you crave something else.

We live in a tiny apartment here in Kyoto – far too small to dry our washing, so once or twice a week we pedal off to the launderette to get everything dried. And while our clothes are swirling around in the giant metal tumblers, we have the perfect excuse to spend 30 minutes across the road in Le Petit Mec, a patisserie so continental you’d think you were in Paris.

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Born in Paris, read everywhere – MOYO one week on

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Paris

Going to Paris with Rachael Taylor in February was always going to be a good idea. Getting industry insight from the Indigo and Premier Vision trade shows, striking a deal with Stylesight to give our students access to some of the best trend advice in the world, taking hundreds of photos for the blog, ‘comp shopping’ in Paris’s chic stationery shops, brainstorming over café au lait in the day, and vin rouge in the evening… But in hindsight one of the best things that actually came out of that trip was a brainwave we had sat on the plane as it took off from Charles de Gaulle Airport.

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