Bali – Time to rest and plan for South East Asia
We arrived in Bali thoroughly exhausted after a pretty eventful two weeks. Whilst normally Christmas and New Year is simply a time …
Hong Kong Phooey Number One Super Place
Wow, Hong Kong, what a place and where to begin. Three bottles of wine 32 floors up, drinking in LKF until 4am, …
Our last week in Japan: The Day Trips
The ridiculously fast (and punctual) Shinsanken trains that run throughout Japan allowed us to cover quite a lot of ground and also …
Our last week in Japan: Miyajima and Osaka
Wow it has been a long time since we wrote anything on here so apologies for that. Or alternatively it has been …
Hiroshima
In all honesty this is a blog we have been putting off writing somewhat, mainly due to the difficulty that arises when …
Kyoto – staying in a Ryokan
One of the highlights of our trip was staying in a Ryokan – a traditional Japanese inn – for one of our …
Anagram City Part two – Kyoto
Kyoto was a huge contrast to our time in Tokyo with the city only having about 1.5m people compared to Tokyo’s 8-13m …
Anagram City! Tokyo and Kyoto
About the only time free we have in Japan seems to be whilst sitting on the SHinkansen trains so once again that’s …
Quito to Tokyo – Four flights, only one missed
We are currently sitting on the Hikari Super Express Shinkansen train from Tokyo to Kyoto which will cover a few hundred miles, …