This is the hardest entry to write. We’ve only a few days left, having just left Kyoto for Osaka. After Kyoto anything else in Japan already feels anti-climatic. Our minds are also elsewhere….Myanmar and home as Trish soon hits the eject button and we separate for at least two months. Where Tokyo is brash and […]
This blog features food, fun and festivals. Well in Japan that’s many days. But our Couchsurfing Host Aki’s pretty extraordinary. We can tell you he’s overly generous, humble, non-confrontational, etc to a fault (more later). But he’s on a mission to spread Couchsurfing across Japan. He’s got a blog going and a book deal about […]
Kanazawa We contrast Tokyo’s brash, in your face megalopolis with ‘small town’ Kanazawa, a city on the west coast known for its old districts, and one of Japan’s best gardens, and for us—a 4 bunk bed hostel with info to help us make some sort of itinerary for the next four weeks. A tori gate […]
Culture shock, getting lost in translation,…we were warned. But after the chaos of Rome, we were met with everything being clean, impossibly efficient, courtesy, politenes, and unheard of customer service. Even the sushi in the 7-11 was yummy. This was in the airport. The only shock has been how wonderful traveling Japan is (Living here? […]
We brought longjohns, gloves n toques and havent needed them so far…and only now, on our 6th and last full day in Iceland have we met significant rain. It’s a good day to peck away at this blog. While we’ve seen glaciers and snow, we wonder if they have anymore than we do. And with […]
After the savoury sights, sounds and craziness of the past four or five months, I may have come to the Antarctic with the least expectations of anybody on this expedition cruise. It’s hard to top the splash of a saffron robed monk collecting alms at six in the morning in Luang Prabang, or scaling the […]
This final leg of this travel is the most bizarre. Bizarre in that we’ve gone from the heat of Asia to the heat of Buenos Aires, on the way to the Antartic. Bizarre in that people look at me like I’m a money-bag when I tell them where I’m going. And bizarre to be going […]
Our Itinerary is roughly laid out below. We only have up to our flights to China booked, the rest has purposely been left open, so that we can meander, be spontaneous and have the flexibility to fall in love with a place and stay for awhile. September London: touring the city with Stan (Trish’s Dad) […]
(Pictures are missing?) Thank you to all of you who came to our bon voyage party to wish us well on our great adventure. Wayne is still recovering from the tequilla shots 😉
As any cook knows, it takes hours and days to prepare a good meal and seconds to eat it. The same goes for travel. We have been planning for this trip for 3 years.. and now that it is a matter of weeks away, we are frantically researching, packing and taking care of last minute […]