
DEER ATTACK
nara park is littered with hundreds of deer. some dry “deer cookies” are sold for feeding them. if last year i bought the cookies, this time i decided to try perk up the deer`s diet and bought a bagful of carrots. which worked so well that i got ambushed: i got head butted, bitten and...
SUSHI, SAKURA AND EARTHQUAKES
i got the full japan package! we were having lunch in nara when i felt the seat beneath me doing a rather slow and lasting zig zag. it felt like i was dizzy but it wasn’t over soon…nobody else in the restaurant seemed to mind or notice. we finished our meal and left. in the...

NARA DAY
i went to nara for the day. it was sunny and the park was full of people and kids. japanese kids are positively the cutest! i cannot really prove it because i don’t like asking people to take their picture, especially their children’s. the park was also full of tame deer who eat some kind...