Disabilities x Minimalism x Location Independent
I love starting a new year, it’s always so full of energy to make changes and hope for a better future. So many things to plan and organise – my two favourite pass times! I’ve chosen the word ‘Balance‘ as my word for 2013. I tend to go from one extreme to another. I’d eat… [Read More]
Well, what a year 2012 was! Looking back at 2012, we are amazed at how many great positive changes to our lives in one short year. We both left our old jobs and moved to Edinburgh (on a train!) We settled down quickly into our new and gorgeous city. James got a great job with… [Read More]
What we imagine things to be and expect them to be is purely the invention of human greed. We need to remove the greed for money, profit and power from the situation in order to truly understand what it is that we need and what they should look like.
I have been having trouble writing here for a while. As the weeks passed by, I found more and more resistance within me. Then I came to the realisation that all of the goals James and I had set out at the start of the blog, almost a year ago, are now being put on… [Read More]
Last Friday, I had my PhD graduation. It was a very long 6-year road that took me around life’s quirky bends such as Dyslexia, Asperger’s, Bipolar, Anorexia, self harm and my thyroids dying. It was also a much longer journey that saw me from being at the bottom of school classes and being bullied horrendously,… [Read More]
We had five days in Madrid in June. June turned out to be a great time to visit Madrid as it was warm but not too hot. A thin cardigan for the morning and late evenings, and tank tops for during the day. Madrid was fantastic for so many reasons. Great food, great art, lots… [Read More]
We just got back from a 10-day trip to Madrid and Salamanca and I took the above shot whilst unpacking my handbag. I travel with just my Packsafe Citysafe 100 (a 4 litre handbag) for most trips in the summer with the bare minimum stuff. As you can see on the photo above, it’s not… [Read More]
My 2-months unplanned trip around Europe with my mum is the first big trip I am going to be doing in minimalist style. I’ve decided to go really minimal on this trip for three reasons. First is that with little luggage, I can help my elderly mum with her luggage. Second, since we’re going to… [Read More]
Packing ultra light takes a lot of planning and even more time revising your list. Sometimes you get into a headspace where you don’t know any more whether you’re travelling with too much or too few things. Sometimes you wonder why you spend so much time obsessing over it all (answer: because you want an… [Read More]
When planning the big 2-months ‘graduation holiday’ this summer with my mother, our original plan was to fly around the world. Three weeks and a lot of research later, we decided to change the whole thing and opt for a tour of Europe by train. This may seem like an odd choice – why on… [Read More]
We're Akiyo and James. We believe you can do anything you want even if you have a learning disability or a mental illness, such as Dyslexia, Asperger's and Bipolar. Why those three? Because AK has all three and James has two of them. We don't let that stop us from having a life that makes us happy, and it shouldn't stop you either! Find out more about us here.