When a Trip Goes From Good to Unforgettable | Abroad in Japan Blog | #3

I share your sentiment about vlogs being hard to watch. The shaky cam, the overwhelming sense of artificiality as people try too hard to appear to naturally do something that's film-worthy... I'll be interested to see how yours go. I still hope AiJ is still the primary focus, though. Please don't become just another vlog channel. D=

"I'm also toying with the idea of a second channel, with more vlog style videos - aka, walking around with a camera and using less editing" I think this would be great. Your edited videos have their own unique stamp on them ofc, but I would also appreciate a street-view/raw type of style vid.

Mike

The idea of a second vlogging channel sounds like a great idea.

Haziq

I support the idea of a vlog channel, so long as you didn't enforce a ridiculous amount of content, like once a day, or four times a week, or something. Vlogs are nice, but I'd hate to see it cut into your main channel's content. Quality is always better than quantity, and that's the leg up you have on many other popular channels. That, and you're funny and stuff.

I haven't traveled in any meaningful way since I was about 12, and none of the stories are particularly interesting or fun for me to share, but I hope to have more in the future, I really do want to travel more in Europe and Asia, particularly Norway, Italy, Japan and the Middle East (When it's a bit more stable), here's to hoping for that to become true, I'm still young, got the whole of my life ahead of me!

Jenna Flynn

Yay for the Vlog channel!

Vlogging would be an absolute hit on your channel. Viewers are always looking for more fun and great content and this would provide a good fix!

Good article Chris. I can see why a night like that with a beautiful woman would be unforgettable. Was this one the one that might have gotten away? There is something to ponder. I remember in one of your videos, I believe the suicide forest one, that you mention a girlfriend...I'm just curious if you are single or not. Is it difficult being a foreigner to get a date? Easier?

Jeremy Carlson

I absolutely agree on this one, well said.

Sören Rossmann

For me the thing that makes a good vlog is the vloggers personality, you sir are a fine example of Her Majesties British sarcasm so any vlog you make will be golden! And as always, a brilliant blog to boot.

Mathew Williams-breese

When in Nara, randomly looking for a place to have lunch, my friends and I stumbled into a jazz bar. Not the sort of place I expected to end up in during my first visit! It had stacks of records in shelves along the walls, and one playing on a turntable. It was fairly small and somewhat dark, and with how it was furnished I bet in the evening it captures something of the feel of a New Orleans club. My Japanese was good enough that I was able to translate so we could talk to the owner, a lady named Kimura-san, who explained quite simply that she'd always been a big fan of jazz, and quite simply, Nara didn't have a place for it: and so she opened one some thirty years ago. She and her son were quite friendly, but spoke pretty much zero English, and so it was a good exercise for me too. Later that evening we stopped in Osaka for dinner, at some restaurant in a department store near the train station. The amusing bit there was when the well-dressed host came out to ask in English, and I replied "san-nin desu," and he clutched his chest and stumbled back as if having a heart attack. Definitely the most memorable day of the trip!

Leo

I wouldn't say no to a vlog, being a nosey bastard and that 😉

Yvette

Would definitely like to see vlog videos. A seperate channel for them sounds like a good idea.

Johan Gustafsson

Looking forward to the Okinawa Video!