Stories
Going NativeGreenland
Today we visited Navarana’s grave. It’s a mound of stones covered with rust-coloured lichen on a stony headland overlooking the…
Portugal and the AzoresPortugal and Azores
São Miguel Island, Azores. The first thing you come across are the beautiful Arruda pineapple plantations, which for the past…
Woman and ShellJapan
We were supposed to be meeting the last Amas, fisherwomen who dived underwater holding their breath, on the peninsula and…
Wild MindJapan
“Something ‘untamed’ is something delicate, elaborate and elegant. The untamed mind has nothing to do with what is rough, boorish…
We are all Members of the UniverseJapan
I’d like to write something for you, but lately my time has been taken up meeting ghosts. This is how…
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art MuseumJapan
It was the year 1923 and Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, the youngest of eight children, was studying at the Military Academy…
The Road to the Sun with Tetsuji MatsubayashiJapan
We’d stayed out late in Kyoto, over a plate of cold green tea soba in a family restaurant close to…
The House of Fantasy with Gert van Tonder and The Art of TravelJapan
The twenty-first typhoon of the season in the Pacific was edging its way northwards towards Okinawa on the day when…
Peace with Aman ResortJapan
The ambience of Amanemu is poetry that penetrates to the mind by way of the eyes. Sitting peacefully on the…