Japanese Alpine Adventures

Rainy season in Japan is normally not the best time to explore the Japanese Alps. However we were lucky enough to have some dry and even sunny days. Great for us was also that there are some stunning trails that we could access with the kids that went beyond 2100m altitude. Amaya kept saying “I […]

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Raining cats and dogs…or not

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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Planting 100 native trees in the Philippines – thanks to our Donors

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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