brown and beige floral teapot on tabletop

This picture has been taken in a “ryokan”, a typical Japanese house. We were having a tea, sitting at a”chabudai”, a short-legged table, the room was smelling like tea and we were wearing a comfortable dressing gown. I’ll never stop recommending everyone to spend a day in a ryokan, at least once in a lifetime: I’ve experienced a restoring separation from our frenetic, noisy world, resting as a kid after an afternoon playing. It has been like visiting a wonderful, quiet, parallel universe.