Having been rather nervous about VietJet Air reading previous reviews before boarding, the 5 hour flight passed quite pleasantly, mainly as it was less than half full so nice and quiet. The girls and Katie loved the air stewards’ uniforms - check shorts and red Mary...
So what do you pack for a 6 month trip around the world covering 3 continents, 11 countries, temperatures ranging from sub zero to 40c+ and averaging a new bed every 3 days? Not a lot is the answer. Well not as much as you might think, and you certainly don’t...
We only spent two weeks in Japan but we covered a lot of ground, and so feel like we have earned the right to share some semi-informed opinions. Without doubt some of them are pretty superficial, and may well not hold true if we had spent longer here, but here goes in...
A quick transfer today, just half an hour on the local train from Kyoto to Osaka and we were in our next new home. Another Mimara apart hotel which are just super – well thought out studio apartments with plenty of room for all including a kitchenette, I don’t think...
The bullet train was quick. Very quick. So fast they actually tell you in advance when to look out of the window to see major sights as they go past so quickly. The 1 min slot for us to view Mount Fuji was more than enough, there was pretty low cloud cover, so we...
After an amazing / manic time in Tokyo in was time to move on for the quieter countryside town of Hakone about 70 miles north west of the capital. Saying goodbye to our Airbnb we caught the ‘RomanceCar’ train to Hakone - not sure why it’s so named, but highlight was...
...and that’s pretty much the extent of our Japanese! After setting off on Monday morning from San Francisco on an 11hr flight, including crossing the international date line where we lost a day of our lives, we landed mid-afternoon on Tuesday into Tokyo. The Japanese...
After yet another visit to San Francisco airport, my third in almost as many days, to collect the hire car, we headed north from the city heading for Sonoma County. First though, the small matter of navigating ‘the beast’ around the relatively modest roads of the...
After two flights heading north, and a brief lunch stop at Houston airport we arrived late afternoon at San Francisco airport for the final leg of our Americas travels. We’ve used Uber a lot on our trip, but in most countries to date it appears to be ‘tolerated’ as...
San Jose was to be our home for our final few days in Costa Rica, quite fitting in many ways, to prepare us for the next leg of our adventure, California. It also signalled the half way point in our trip. We started our Latin America adventure back in Buenos Aires...
