Guy Thomas 〓〓
@guywrites.bsky.social
Writer 📚 Photography 📸 Hiker ⛰️ Nature 🌳 Mindfulness 🙏
Cornishman living in Hampshire
Cornishman living in Hampshire
It’s our last night in Japan after two wonderful weeks of cultural joy. Tonight we cooked up a meal of eel and rice, sea bream and beans and pumpkin, with Pak Choi and mushrooms, all from the local market. Tomorrow, we head to China for more discovery. Thank you Japan for everything. We will return.
February 8, 2026 at 1:22 PM
It’s our last night in Japan after two wonderful weeks of cultural joy. Tonight we cooked up a meal of eel and rice, sea bream and beans and pumpkin, with Pak Choi and mushrooms, all from the local market. Tomorrow, we head to China for more discovery. Thank you Japan for everything. We will return.
We had a dusting of snow here in Osaka today, and the late winter flowers looked especially pretty. The herons by the pond in our park were unbothered and just carried on with their day. 🇯🇵❄️
#Japan #life #travel #photography
#Japan #life #travel #photography
February 8, 2026 at 12:14 PM
We had a dusting of snow here in Osaka today, and the late winter flowers looked especially pretty. The herons by the pond in our park were unbothered and just carried on with their day. 🇯🇵❄️
#Japan #life #travel #photography
#Japan #life #travel #photography
February 8, 2026 at 10:37 AM
February 8, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Whilst travelling, I am listening to Renegades: Born in the USA with Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen from 2021. If you have not listened to it, I urge you to do so. If you have listened to it, I urge you to re-visit it in the light of today’s political and social crises. It is raw yet hopeful. 📻
February 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Whilst travelling, I am listening to Renegades: Born in the USA with Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen from 2021. If you have not listened to it, I urge you to do so. If you have listened to it, I urge you to re-visit it in the light of today’s political and social crises. It is raw yet hopeful. 📻
February 6, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Touring the Shugakuin Imperial Villa and gardens, up in the mountains on the outskirts of Kyoto. A breathtaking walk in the late winter sunshine. 🇯🇵
February 4, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Touring the Shugakuin Imperial Villa and gardens, up in the mountains on the outskirts of Kyoto. A breathtaking walk in the late winter sunshine. 🇯🇵
If you need a moment of calm in your timeline, pause with me awhile in the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 🌳
#Japan #nature #lake #trees #calm #peace #life #mindfulness #photography
#Japan #nature #lake #trees #calm #peace #life #mindfulness #photography
February 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
If you need a moment of calm in your timeline, pause with me awhile in the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 🌳
#Japan #nature #lake #trees #calm #peace #life #mindfulness #photography
#Japan #nature #lake #trees #calm #peace #life #mindfulness #photography
A day of visiting ancient shogun and emperor palaces and temples today in Kyoto. Here is the Kinkaku-ji temple - an old shogun temple (the samurai were zen monks as well as warriors). This temple is covered in pure gold leaf. Kyoto was the capital of Japan until 1869. 🇯🇵
February 3, 2026 at 12:20 PM
A day of visiting ancient shogun and emperor palaces and temples today in Kyoto. Here is the Kinkaku-ji temple - an old shogun temple (the samurai were zen monks as well as warriors). This temple is covered in pure gold leaf. Kyoto was the capital of Japan until 1869. 🇯🇵
We are staying in the mountains in Hakone. The main way of travelling from town to town is by rope car above the sulphur steam pumping out from the volcanic landscape. We took the rope car from Togendai to Sounzan and on to Gora. A fantastic way to get about! 🚠 🇯🇵
February 1, 2026 at 1:25 PM
We are staying in the mountains in Hakone. The main way of travelling from town to town is by rope car above the sulphur steam pumping out from the volcanic landscape. We took the rope car from Togendai to Sounzan and on to Gora. A fantastic way to get about! 🚠 🇯🇵
We are staying in a traditional ryokan (Japanese traveller’s inn). No shoes allowed and you are encouraged to wear robes to relax. And it is very relaxing! 🇯🇵
January 31, 2026 at 12:40 PM
We are staying in a traditional ryokan (Japanese traveller’s inn). No shoes allowed and you are encouraged to wear robes to relax. And it is very relaxing! 🇯🇵
We have moved on from Tokyo and headed SW to Hakone. Staying a couple of days up in the mountains in a ryokan (traditional Japanese inn). Our room looks out over Mt Fuji. I spent an hour sat outside in a hot spring bath watching the sunset on Mt Fuji. Alone with my thoughts. A magical experience. 🇯🇵
January 31, 2026 at 12:22 PM
We have moved on from Tokyo and headed SW to Hakone. Staying a couple of days up in the mountains in a ryokan (traditional Japanese inn). Our room looks out over Mt Fuji. I spent an hour sat outside in a hot spring bath watching the sunset on Mt Fuji. Alone with my thoughts. A magical experience. 🇯🇵
January 28, 2026 at 3:01 PM
January 27, 2026 at 11:35 PM
January 23, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Throwback to early autumn, still with a hint of warmth in the air with cooler winds knocking at the door. If you need a moment of calm, come walk with Monty and me. 😊
#woodlands #trees #nature #walk #seasons #life #calm #peace #photography #mindfulness
#woodlands #trees #nature #walk #seasons #life #calm #peace #photography #mindfulness
January 22, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Throwback to early autumn, still with a hint of warmth in the air with cooler winds knocking at the door. If you need a moment of calm, come walk with Monty and me. 😊
#woodlands #trees #nature #walk #seasons #life #calm #peace #photography #mindfulness
#woodlands #trees #nature #walk #seasons #life #calm #peace #photography #mindfulness
Even though it is 18 minutes long, I truly urge you to listen to Mark Carney’s full speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday. It’s a speech for our times. Eloquent, intelligent, brutally honest, and historic. If only our own timid leader could be this strong. 🇨🇦
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youtu.be/kDMyeGQm3NA?...
Full: PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum in Davos
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January 21, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Even though it is 18 minutes long, I truly urge you to listen to Mark Carney’s full speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday. It’s a speech for our times. Eloquent, intelligent, brutally honest, and historic. If only our own timid leader could be this strong. 🇨🇦
youtu.be/kDMyeGQm3NA?...
youtu.be/kDMyeGQm3NA?...
If you need a moment of calm on your timeline, stand with me for a moment and bathe in nature’s serenity. Be kind to yourself and know that your best today is good enough. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 😊
#nature #countryside #fields #sky #calm #peace #winter #life #mindfulness
#nature #countryside #fields #sky #calm #peace #winter #life #mindfulness
January 21, 2026 at 3:29 PM
If you need a moment of calm on your timeline, stand with me for a moment and bathe in nature’s serenity. Be kind to yourself and know that your best today is good enough. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 😊
#nature #countryside #fields #sky #calm #peace #winter #life #mindfulness
#nature #countryside #fields #sky #calm #peace #winter #life #mindfulness
There is a calm in the woodland rains that grounds me and makes me feel closer to nature than at any other moment. Amidst all the chaos in the world, nature still provides the most efficacious balm. 🌳
#nature #woodlands #rain #trees #life #calm #peace #walk #photography
#nature #woodlands #rain #trees #life #calm #peace #walk #photography
January 20, 2026 at 9:06 PM
There is a calm in the woodland rains that grounds me and makes me feel closer to nature than at any other moment. Amidst all the chaos in the world, nature still provides the most efficacious balm. 🌳
#nature #woodlands #rain #trees #life #calm #peace #walk #photography
#nature #woodlands #rain #trees #life #calm #peace #walk #photography