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JAPAN ~ Ukiha (2012-2013) Nagarekawa Cherry Blossom

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 Ukiha city is one of these beautiful places that although is getting more popular with Japanese tourism it is mostly unknown with foreign tourists, probably because it has not been mentioned extensively yet by any major foreign travel guidebook. Located in Kyushu, just one hour away from Fukuoka, it is easily reachable by car, bus or train.  There are many appealing attractions from natural sites like parks with waterfalls to stunning rice terraces, endless fruit farms in which you could experience fruit picking at the right season, beautiful temples, shrines, onsen and cozy little cafes, all of these will try to cover in future posts. But there is one attraction that is the most popular and it is only available for a few days a year, enjoying the cherry blossoms at the Nagarekawa Cherry Blossom Avenue .  The cherry trees line up in both sides of the path creating a fairy tale atmosphere during the cherry blossoms season.  Was really happy to photograph ...

Philippines Molocaboc Island - My 1st article

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Back in 2008, when I visited my moms tiny island in the Philippines, I took a lot of footage and published my 1st article in a widely distributed travel magazine of that time in Greece, they even featured my photo for the front cover. I provided all the photographs and the story, they did the layout and added a bit of editorial info. I am sharing the article here, the images are actual scans of the magazine, apologies for the medium quality of the scans (didn't have a good scanner back then), the magazine is in Greek but I provide an English translation of my story  below (only what I wrote without any added info from the magazine) plus the photos which were used for the article reposted - there are many more nice relevant photos for the story but since this post is about the actual article, the extra photos will be posted in different posts with more information and the full stories. Finally I want to dedicate this post to my grandfather Victorio who passed away in 2016: ...