Training Days

Posted by on Oct 24, 2011 in Shizuoka, Travel Volunteer Journey | 5 Comments
Training Days

Today is our 40th day as travel volunteers: if we were emigrating pets, or Jesus Christ, it’d be time to leave quarantine and come home for a bite to eat and a bit of a cuddle. But we’re neither, so we keep travelling. In fact, for two of those 40 days, we’ve been nothing but ...

A Brief Word On Trainspotting

Posted by on Oct 14, 2011 in Saitama, Travel Volunteer Journey | 3 Comments
A Brief Word On Trainspotting

1964. Britain still hangs its citizens; America is violently swithering about the Civil Rights Act; Bob Dylan introduces The Beatles to cannabis. Meanwhile, Japan is getting ready for its first Olympics by unleashing the shinkansen, or what the world will come to know as the Bullet Train. While the rest of the world may as ...