Vikingess Voyages

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Weekend Trip to Okayama!

Anette 7:33:00 PM

This Sunday some of my friends and I went on a short trip to Okayama and Hyogo-ken, where Ken's family has a cottage. Originally this was a trip intended only for the Japanese students who studied two years in America with the DUDP-program at Ritsumeikan, but since only a few of them were able...

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Ritsumeikan

Graduation Day at Ritsumeikan!

Anette 8:12:00 PM

After a couple of weeks in Kobe where Yuma`s family has helped me recovering from my surfing accident in Bali I am now back in Kyoto again ready for another semester at Ritsumeikan. However, while some of us are going back to school there are a lot of my Japanese friends who are graduating, and...

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Tohoku

One Year Since the Tohoku Earthquake

Anette 9:53:00 PM

Now it has already been a whole year since the Tohoku earthquake with the following tsunami that killed nearly 20.000 people in the northern part of Japan’s main island Honshu. My travel buddy Adaora and I were on a round trip in Asia when the earthquake happened, and I remember the shock it was to...

Friday, March 9, 2012

Random

Movie Recommendation: "Mother: Caring for 7 Billion"

Anette 7:34:00 PM

With my blog I have so far mainly written about my life as a student in Japan, and about my travels to various parts of the world since I started blogging in September 2010. However, throughout my travels I feel that I have gained a lot of valuable knowledge worth sharing with others. Not...

Friday, March 2, 2012

Surfing

Hospitalized in Bali..

Anette 10:38:00 PM

Yesterday I was going to try out surfing for my second time. Kuta beach is world famous for its great surfing conditions, and Yuma and me wanted to spend a fun day at the beach. We got up early and went down to the beach, rented a couple of boards and got into the water. We had rented the boards for...

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A modern-day shield-maiden who loves to explore the unbeaten paths of the world. From her base in Tokyo, Anette takes on both rural and urban challenges, and on her path, she has overcome anything from natural wilderness and cultural barriers to commuting in overcrowded Tokyo trains.

Life is too short to be stuck on one page, and this mindset reflects the diversity of Anette’s blog.
Besides being a career woman she is also a globetrotter, with 39 countries and counting.
No challenge too big, no adventure too small!

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