In summer, Hokkaido draws touring bikers and cyclists like flowers attract honey bees. “Honeybee tribe” (Jap.: mitsubachi-zoku) they are indeed called, the motorcyclists that flock since the 80’s to the most Northern of the Japanese Islands during the flowery time of summer touring from one campground to the next, covering all corners of this beautiful region. Also […]
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After donating, volunteering and investing into tree planting and forest protection for more than one decade, we were collecting donations for tree planting in Japan in 2016 and 2017. Our previous tree donations have supported worthy projects in in Africa, Asia and South America. For a flavour of one of our tree donation during the Zen […]
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Cycling and camping during the rainy season in Japan? Before we had left for our Tour 3 months ago, I had prepared a detailed route planning following the climate charts of the Japanese Islands, S Korea, Taiwan and New Zealand. Avoiding heat, cold but especially the rain was the hot topic. But the rainy season […]
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One of the hidden treasures of Shikoku Island in Japan is it’s marine life. The Pacific coast of Shikoku is home to several whale migration routes and there are also Dolphins in the area. At Cape Muroto we went with the kids to a Dolphin centre and had an amazing and intimate encounter with Dolphins. […]
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We had an interview with Katie Roberts from Expat Living Magazine Singapore a couple of weeks ago. She wrote a lovely article that is now published in the Magazine and you can view it here: Cycling Zen Expat Living 2016. You can also view the article in the nice Expat Living Online version if you sign up […]
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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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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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