The Monday Read: Road Trip
We took a trip to Hokuriku this week. Drove down to Toyama, stayed in a hotel we like, ate at a small French restaurant we stumbled upon a few years ago when it first opened, visited my wife’s aunt’s grave, spent a couple of nights in Kanazawa, and visited the Fukui dinosaur museum (that’s where […]
The Monday Read: Taking Stock
It is almost December! Unbelievable. I’m really looking forward to my annual review this year (been doing annual plans and reviews since 2013) and next year’s plan. Hope you are doing well too! RetireJapan TV Last Monday we finally launched our secret livestream project: RetireJapan TV. We didn’t tell anyone because we weren’t sure if […]
The Monday Read: Rainy November Morning
My granddaughter is going on her (delayed) overnight field trip today, so of course it was cold and raining when I dropped her off at school at 6:45 this morning. Feels like winter in the UK, not something I enjoy! YouTube Thank you for your support of the RetireJapan YouTube channel. I started the Part-time […]
The Monday Read: Life of Learning
Some of you might remember that I have been taking an online writing course called Ship 30 for 30. That finishes tomorrow and I will be starting Ali Abdaal’s Part-time YouTuber Academy… tomorrow. I enjoyed the writing course, but it didn’t quite live up to the hype and I would give it a score of […]
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Jet Lag Edition Finally got over the jet lag. I swear it is getting worse as I get older. In my 20s I barely noticed jet lag. In my 30s it took me a couple of days to get over it and I was pretty much functional. Now at 45 it took at least a […]
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Don’t Miss Two in a Row Edition My apologies for missing last week’s Monday Read. The international date line was to blame, not me 😉 We made it back into Japan and it was surprisingly easy to enter with the MySOS app and the new procedures. They kept us on the plane for 30 minutes […]
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Oh Canada Edition Well, it seems like I’m in Canada, eh? First time here, we started with a couple of days in Vancouver. Lovely city, and we had incredible weather while we were there. Next up is Calgary, then Toronto. YouTube Thank you for your support of the RetireJapan YouTube channel. We published a video […]
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Heading Overseas Edition Heading to Canada this week at short notice, so I had to look into entry restrictions in Canada (none as of October 1st) and Japan. Spent a couple of hours today trying to find, download, and fill in the MySOS app. Is it just me, or is the whole thing a prime […]
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AI Edition I’ve been playing with Dall-E (they opened it up to anyone last week) and it is kind of fun. It seems some of the writing AIs are pretty good too. Interesting to see where this ends up. Microblog Sent the first microblog entries (a bumper edition for most of September) to people with […]
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Praying to the Gods for Money yet again Edition This weekend my wife and I are back at Kinkasan off the coast of Miyagi, at the Koganeyama Shrine. Legend (or, more likely, the priests at the shrine) say that if you attend the annual ceremony three times in a row you will never want for […]