After stocking up with fresh fruit and veggies we started driving the 20 or so miles along the west coast of the Oshika peninsula. It soon became clear that, despite not being able to see the ocean, we were driving through a seaside town — wherever you are in the world they always seem to [...]

We pulled up in the combini car park just around the corner from the telepathic obaasans, and within minutes Miho drove up. At first glance at the area around the combini you wouldn’t have known that anything had happened here, and then just to one side of the car park I saw that giant cracks [...]

This is the story of how almost 100 boxes containing over 11,000 items donated by the people of England were distributed to people on the other side of the world, who had lost everything. This is the story of how thousands of pounds hidden in my underwear directly helped people who found themselves with nothing. [...]

I’m writing this from a love hotel — funny how a day can turn out sometimes! After loading up Virgin Atlantic’s Richard’s car with things we wanted to take to Tohoku, we drove to Shin-Koiwa to meet Andy at the truck rental company. After a quick glance at my and Andy’s driving licences we were [...]