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Exploring Japan one wonder at a time

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Back in Holland

Where the trains don’t necessarily run on time, where you don’t have to take off your shoes everywhere, where strawberries are cheap, where you can’t leave your luggage standing around without it disappearing, and where the girl at the supermarket stares oddly at you when you hand her your banknote with two hands.

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Orranda!

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Flight

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Watch your sense organ

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Daring Duck Beach Club, Run by a Dutch guy Felt like Noorderlicht But with better drinks

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BBQing on the dock

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International hip in Xiamen A brewery run by two German designers

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Schooluniforms here are not as cute as in Japan, here they are tracksuits.. For boys and girls alike. And there are 50 kids in a class (a reason why the Chinese don't speak English very well)

MB & A

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A lot of kids grow up with their grandparents - their parents will just move to different cities two work (could even be two different cities), and kids are left with the grandparents

MB

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Courtyard Parh to walk your baby from 6-8 & inconvenient fence Popular island (behind a road on stilts) An office building square which is used as a playground at night by (grand)parents & kids

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Xiamen classic shops

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Icecream!

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Visiting Marc, Annie & Julian for 4hrs on my layover

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Chinese toilet!! The plastic seat version has not been seen in Japan.

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Xiamen airlines Where I got stuck next to two sleepers before we even took off..

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Saying goodbye to Saya, who bravely answered all questions. And is a great person to come home to. - got a lovely house as well!

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M&T very interested in the reproductive system of chickens