Category: DanDan/ダンダン

Before becoming a dad, I knew from other friends that babies just loved their walks, or car rides. I heard stories that some even refused to sleep unless they were first driven around the block for a few minutes. (I feel like baby stories are often very exaggerated, is...

Shortly after Yoshifusa was born, Kokoro asked me to take a picture of him for our family. I got up, took my phone out and went to see him. The minute I raised my phone, he instantly turned around: “No picture for you, sir.” So our first picture of...

I’m not very good at picking names. Whenever I play games and have to name my characters or teams, I just come up with the least clever, most boring ideas. So you can imagine how much fun I must’ve had spending hours and hours trying to come up with...

Moving on with our journey, let’s head off to one of my absolute favourite cities in the whole world. It’s in Italy and you may have never heard of it. It’s Otranto in Apulia and just a few kilometres away from the south-eastern tip of Italy. As far as...

For today’s Travel Time, let me tell you about the city where Kokoro and I first met, Münster, in the German province of North-Rhine Westphalia. It’s a quaint, hidden gem of a European city with a gorgeous historical centre – if you don’t believe me, just check out the...

お久しぶりです！ It’s been a while! After a small break from DanDan, I decided to come back with a series of short travelling snippets for my next few posts. With most people being stuck at home for extended periods of time, it would be nice to go on small trips...

I’ve already written quite a few times about my attempts to learn Japanese, but recently something extraordinary happened. I had my first (brief) conversation in Japanese with…MY DAD. Now, Romanian is our native language and we’ve always spoken it at home, barring a few random words/sentences in English or...

Now that the heat wave seems to have cooled down, Kokoro and I wanted to share what we miss most about summer in our respective countries, including typical food and activities we enjoyed in the warm weather. You can read more about Canadian summers here (in Japanese), but for...

I wrote about the NPB, Japan’s professional baseball league, a while back and it’s time to do it again. Why? Because I. Miss. It. So. Much. Every morning, the first thing I do after I wake up is hopping on Yahoo Japan’s SportsNavi to see which players were activated/deactivated...