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She/her. Montrealer. Full-time freelance content creator, blogger and translator (French to English/ English to French). Currently working on several manuscripts about the life of composer Violet Archer (my great aunt).

Tag: Kyoto

  • Philosophizing in Kyoto

    Philosophizing in Kyoto

    It’s already been 4 months since we’ve been back from our trip to Japan and it occurred to me that I never came around to posting more pictures. After our time in the crazy metropolis of Tokyo, we headed to a much more peaceful place in Japan: Kyoto. We stayed in the city of 2000…

  • Iwatayama monkey park

    Iwatayama monkey park

      Iwatayama monkey park in Arashiyama, a suburb of Kyoto. Here, monkeys roam freely, as humans keep quiet and observe, so not to get the critters too stressed out.

  • Mini toriis at Fushimi Inari shrine

      We hiked at the beautiful Fushimi Inari shrine. Kyoto has many shrines and temples, but this one is extra special because the trails are meant to make you pass under thousands of large toriis (a torii is the door to access a shrine)