The impressions of the first day(s) in another country are usually very strong and especially vivid. All senses are on full alert and I usually smell, taste, hear, see and even feel more intensive. Afterwards these feelings fade and everything appears more normal. Here are my impressions of arriving (once more) in Japan and what seems so familiar and […]
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It had rained cats and dogs when we reached Kansai International Airport late at night (this is basically Osaka Airport on artificial Island 50km from Osaka city). This was bad news for us on the first day because neither Ragna nor me had rainjackets. Why did they not take rainjackets? I would also think while […]
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Today we were invited for a sharing session with the kindergarten children at PMI, Amaya’s and Tayanika’s preschool in Singapore. First we discussed about the three symbols of our logo: the bicycle, the sun and the tree. The children shared their thoughts around trees, such as shade from sun and rain, source for paper, haze and burning trees […]
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Previous donated funds from Cycle Generation supporters allowed us today to adopt seedlings of two new forest patches in the Philippines. These are part of forest restoration activities of the Haribon Foundation in denuded forests around the country and part of a nation-wide movement called “ROAD to 2020” to restore 1 million hectares of forests in the Philippines […]
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Ok friends of the sun, around 4 weeks until we will start on our new adventure, the Zen Tour. This time all 4 of us with bikes and trailer starting end of April in Osaka, Japan. Yes, it’s all so exciting! But there is still so much packing and planning ……. Our to do list has about 100 […]
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