Shooting Churches, Eating Noodles (Year XX)

I've been to the cultural treasures of Kyoto except for the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest that I visited for the first time.  For this secon...

There was a colleague from Narra in Palawan who always got drunk in bars adorned with heavy narra , a premium hardwood t hat is the nationa...

I stayed in Osaka for a week-long induction as a visiting JICA fellow 20 years ago. Back then, my knack for adventuring was just evolving so...