After a few busy days of sightseeing so far in Japan, we decided to start our time in Tokyo with a more relaxed pace. I love a nice cup of tea and Rich loves cats, so we headed to the Cat Cafe Calico in the Kabuki-cho district of Shinjuku to experience both at the same time! Cat […]
Read more "The Crazy Cat Cafe"Checking out of our hostel at seven o’clock in the morning, an early start saw Rich and I fully loaded with our backpacks on the city trains heading to Kyoto, thirty five miles away. We had a full day of sightseeing planned in Kyoto before heading on to Tokyo at the end of the day. Our first […]
Read more "Non stop in Kyoto"Our day trip to Hiroshima started with a ride on the Shinkansen bullet train. Travelling at speeds of up to two hundred miles per hour we covered the two hundred and five mile journey in a mere one hour and forty minutes. The Shinkansen bullet train was amazing, it departed Osaka right on time and arrived in […]
Read more "Hiroshima"The first stop on our Japanese adventure was the city of Osaka. After flying the not so direct route from Ho Chi Minh City to Osaka via Bangkok, we were once again rather tired on our late night arrival! We had planned our six night stay in Japan well in advance of arriving, not least […]
Read more "Osaka"From Hoi An our Vietnamese adventure headed five hundred and eighty miles further south, via the sleeper train, to Ho Chi Minh City (still commonly called Saigon). The seventeen and a half hour train journey was very much the same as our last, except this time we boarded at half past eleven in the morning, […]
Read more "A quick stop in Ho Chi Minh City"From Hanoi, Rich and I were heading south through Vietnam. The small city of Hoi An, a UNESCO world heritage site, was our next destination and our chosen method of transport was the sleeper train! We stocked up on food and water for our sixteen hour train ride and boarded in Hanoi at around seven o’clock in […]
Read more "Happy days in Hoi An"After a four hour drive east from Hanoi, we boarded our Vietnamese junk boat. Rich and I were embarking on a three day, two night sailing trip around Halong Bay, an area with over one thousand six hundred limestone islands jutting out of the sea, declared a world natural heritage site by UNESCO in nineteen […]
Read more "Halong Bay"After the stifling heat of Cambodia the prospect of heading to the cooler climate of northern Vietnam was a good one. With short flights from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City and then on to Hanoi we arrived late at night. The roads were deserted, it was pitch black, drizzling with rain and we […]
Read more "Good Morning Vietnam!"I would be lying if I said that Rich and I were looking forward to the eight hour bus journey from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh. Our experience thus far of road users in Cambodia showed that it was going to be anything but a peaceful and relaxing journey. The fact it would take us eight […]
Read more "A history lesson in Phnom Penh"Our journey to Cambodia took us from Phuket to Bangkok and then on to Siem Reap. Flying with Air Asia again, our short flights with them were much better than our long haul one a couple of weeks earlier. Arriving into Siem Reap we were met at the airport by our driver for the free […]
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Lambs on the loose 