Category: Parks

How not to spend a day in Kyoto

Although one day is not nearly enough to explore Kyoto, sometimes it is all you have to work with. I went to Kyoto this summer as a day trip from Tokyo, and it was a day of errors for me. Unfortunately for me, I did not get the […]

2 Days in Osaka, Japan

Osaka holds a really special place in my heart, and I don’t know why. Even before we got to Japan, I wanted to visit Osaka the most and I knew it would be my favorite. Maybe because it is the food capital of Japan? Maybe because of the […]

2 days in Juneau, AK

One weekend in May, I made the trek back up to my latest infatuation: Alaska I met up with some friends and we spent three days in the tiny capital city. The land area of the city is actually pretty large (second largest city in the U.S…. and […]

Three Days in Copenhagen, Denmark

While I was living in France last year, one of my friends came to visit me in Europe and we met up in Copenhagen June 23-26. Copenhagen is the English version of København which comes from “merchant’s harbor.”   Some notes on culture in Copenhagen Studenterkørsel To start, this […]