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"Getting lost gracefully is a form of art..."
Japan in known for having a difficult-to-parse street-addressing system and Tokyo is equally known for having a labyrinthian metro system, both of which make travel for tourists more challenging....
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"As the main character in a story..."
You’re not allowed to take photos inside the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo (a museum that, sadly, we were too late off the mark to get the required advance tickets for). The museum’s website describes their...
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TRUCK and Bird in Osaka
I honestly don’t know how we found out about TRUCK Furniture and Bird Coffee in Osaka. We hadn’t even planned to visit Osaka on our trip to Japan – to be honest, until last week I wasn’t even sure...
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Our Favourite Things to do with Kids in Tokyo
Over 13 days in Japan Oliver and I got to experience an incredibly child-focused country. Between children’s museums and science museums and neighbourhood children’s centres, it’s obvious that Japan...
View Article40 Videos from Japan
We shot 40 little videos with our HTC Evo rental phone during the 13 days we were in Japan. Here’s a playlist of them all; 16 minutes in total.Add a Comment
View ArticleBob Bateman
Charlottetown businessman and aviation pioneer Bob Bateman died this week. I met Bob only once, at a breakfast in West Royalty a few years ago, but over the years he showed me great generosity several...
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Our Favourite Things to do with Kids in Osaka
Osaka wasn’t even on our radar while we were planning our trip to Japan. We knew we wanted to visit Tokyo, and Oliver was bound and determined to stay in the 9 Hours Hotel in Kyoto, so they were set....
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お知らせ
One of my favourite purchases in Japan came from TRUCK Furniture: it’s a porcelain-handled rubber stamp of the Japanese word お知らせ, which is “announcement” in English.Add a Comment
View ArticleSpark on Digital Books in Libraries
Remember my travails with trying to borrow and then return a digital audiobook about learning Norwegian? Well in late February I recorded a short interview with CBC’s Nora Young about my experience,...
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Shhhhhh!
The old “Enter Quietly, Please” sign on the theatre door beside our office has always bothered me. And so, faced with a strong desire to procrastinate this morning, I decided to develop an alternative....
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Japanese Word Cards
Regular readers may recall that I’m somewhat stationery-obsessed. Drop me in a new city and I’d far rather visit the local stationery shop than almost anything else. It’s why, in part, I love Berlin so...
View Article20 Years on Prince Edward Island
The 20th anniversary of our “short visit to Prince Edward Island” passed unmarked in mid-March. I first applied for a job here in February of 1993, foolishly saying, in my job interview, that I could...
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Omotesando Koffee
Here’s how you get to Omotesando Koffee in Tokyo: take the Chiyoda (C) metro line to the Omotesando station. Once you arrive at the station, walk to exit A2 (there are a lot of exits in this station,...
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15 Final Thoughts on Japan
There’s nothing worse than someone hijacking their own blog for weeks after returning from a trip with tales of their adventures: travel tales wither quickly on the vine. And so I’ll shut down the...
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Charlottetown Zoning Map
Over on my Hacker in Residence blog I’ve been doing some experimenting with the City of Charlottetown zoning map, taking the raw map from the city, massaging the data and merging it with provincial...
View ArticleOpen Minecraft Lab
I’ve been intrigued by the word-building game Minecraft since my friend Morgan turned me on to it a couple of years ago. I’m not a devoted player – I need to preserve my hands and forearms for...
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It's a 10 minute walk to the Waterfront Boardwalk...
It’s nice to know that my city is capable, on occasion, of living up to its inspired city propoganda. Witness this sign, spotted on the way to work this morning:It’s such a great initiative: it...
View ArticleNew Washroom at The Guild
There’s a raft of renovations here at The Guild this spring, from a new wood-like floor in the gallery to a new electronic signboard that will be going up shortly on the facade. My favourite update,...
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Printing Coffee Bags
In the printing trade, one of the letterpress’s unique superpowers is the ability to print on irregularly-shaped things. Like coffee bags. And so, after picking up and afternoon coffee at Youngfolk...
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